Back to the future? 🤔 George Russell has said Mercedes is taking inspiration from its “glory years” as it develops its 2024 F1 car ⬇️
Its form took a dive with the W13 under the new aerodynamic regulations last year, and it has only scored one win over the last two seasons.
A series of updates has improved this year’s W14, but in recent races Russell has questioned the set-up direction,“I think this weekend's validated that probably the direction we've taken with the set-up in recent races hasn't been the right one,” said Russell when asked by Autosport if he felt more comfortable at Spa.
“We suffered with a huge amount of bouncing today. A number of teams did, maybe not as severe as we did, still obviously a bit of a shame to see that as a sport at the pinnacle the majority of teams are still struggling with bouncing. I hope something can be solved in that regard in the future.” Asked if it was a set-up issue that could be addressed rather than a general trend with the updates, he said: “Yeah, definitely can be tweaked. I think we're working really hard on the characteristics for next year.during the glory years, and using that as a bit of inspiration, as clearly that was one of the best cars in history. So that's given us some pointers on where we need to try and aim for.
“Some from mistakes of my own, some like the failure in Australia cost me a lot of points. But nevertheless, if you're not fighting for P1 in the drivers’ championship, you just want to maximise the constructors’, and so far we're kind of doing that.
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