Mercedes Formula 1 trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin says that the team is designing “experiments” for the Australian GP weekend in an attempt to solve issues with the W15.
The car has been plagued by bouncing, especially with low fuel in qualifying, while its weakness in high-speed corners relative to rivals was very apparent in Saudi Arabia. Shovlin suggests that the team will try different approaches at the upcoming Australian GP as it continues to hone the car. “There's definitely data that we're picking through from Jeddah,” he said.
That was less of a problem in the race. There's more fuel on the car. You're going a bit slower. And that seemed to calm down, and wasn't such an issue. “And then the big one is we don't really have enough grip there. So that's one of the things that we are working hard on this week, because Melbourne has similar nature of corners. “So we're doing a lot of work to try and understand why did we not seem to have the grip of some of our close competitors.
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