Mercedes have made an alarming admission about the issues plaguing their 2024 F1 car.
The Silver Arrows have endured a difficult and underwhelming start to the season for the third consecutive year following the introduction of major regulation changes in 2022.
Asked if Mercedes are still seeing problems with wind tunnel data not correlating with on-track performance in the team’s latest post-race debrief video, technical director James Allison said: “In simple terms yes. “You have simplified models back here in the factory and those simplified models are powerful for steering you one way or the other. But all of them have their shortcomings and all of them have their correlation issues.
"And those differences, if we can bring them closer together then it just allows us to be more accurate with the projections we make back here address the things that we believe are holding the car back.”Mercedes produced an encouraging turn of pace in final practice in Melbourne, only to experience a sudden drop-off in performance when it came to qualifying as Hamilton suffered a shock Q2 exit.
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