Mercedes 'are going to do a Red Bull copy next year, and then they'll be back'

Mercedes may be publicly umming and aahing about their W14's sidepods but Marc Surer believes they've already made the call to copy Red Bull.

Mercedes ‘are going to do a Red Bull copy next year, and then they’ll be back’Mercedes “are going” to give up on their zero-pods and copy Red Bull’s race-winning downwash sidepods for next season’s W14, so declares former F1 driver Marc Surer.

The zero-pod has been widely blamed for Mercedes’ early season struggles, as the minimalistic sidepods aren’t able to help stabilise the floor which played a role in their extreme porpoising. But, he added, “where that goes into next year it’s difficult to say” given the tweaks to next year’s floor regulations.

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