Mercedes hope that the introduction of a new floor upgrade at the upcoming F1 United States Grand Prix will indicate they are “on the right track”.
While work is advanced on Mercedes’ 2024 challenger as the team focuses their efforts on closing the gap to Red Bull over the winter, development on the W14 has not completely stopped.
Mercedes will bring a new floor to this weekend’s US GP at Austin, but the upgrade’s importance goes beyond immediate performance gains. “Hopefully it will give us a bit of lap time,” Mercedes technical director James Allison said at the Qatar Grand Prix. “That’s always a benefit.“In lap time terms, it will be small. Useful, but don’t expect us to have leapt past Max .”
Mercedes’ 2022 and 2023 campaigns have been hampered by their troubled and inconsistent W13 and W14 cars, prompting a fundamental design change for next season.“I think that much of what ails us now is reasonably well-understood and we’re working to fix that,” he explained.“I feel like all of us got a pretty clear-sighted view of what we want to do with the car.
“So that makes the next years fun, very exciting to look forward to, and actually this period of the year extremely enjoyable."
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