Despite recent improvements in the W15's performance, Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin acknowledged that the car still has flaws that prev
trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin acknowledged that the car still has flaws that prevent it from matching the speed of McLaren or's title contenders. However, Shovlin has plans to address these issues and is focused on strategies to surpass its top competitors.
Mercedes' resurgence, along with McLaren's and Ferrari's recent displays of strength, suggests a tightening grid. However, to compete with the fastest cars—McLaren's MCL38 and Red Bull's RB20—Mercedes still needs to refine some rough edges in their car's performance to become a genuine title contender.
"In the early part of the year we had a car that its behavior would be changed wildly with relatively small swings in track condition. In Jeddah we were bouncing badly in the high-speed corners."If you look at tracks like Budapest, you'd say we're still putting too much temperature in the rear tires and there's also just an element that we need to find a bit more base performance.
"Everyone is trying to develop their cars. If you're not developing, at a faster rate than the others then you are going backwards.
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