Mercedes have made some sizeable alterations to their long-awaited 2024 F1 car which was presented tꦡo the worl🍃d on Wednesday.

Despite finishing second in the constructors’ championship last year, Mercedes endured their first winless campaign since 2011. A second consecutive challenging season in F1’s current ae🐭rodynamics regulation cyc🅘le has led Mercedes to revamp their car for 2024.

One of the main areas of focus was to give drivers168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: George Russell a more predictable car.

“A big focus has been on improving the ⛦previous car’s unpredictable rear axle, which the drivers often referred to as spiteful,” Mercedes technical director James Allison🐬 said.

“We have worked on that to try and create a car that is reassuring to the drivers. At the beginning of a corner when you're hard on the brakes and turning in, the💃 rear needs to feel rock solid.

“And then as you get towards the apex, the car needs to feel progr🍨essively more nimble, and eager, to turn. We have been trying to build that i𒀰nto the car.

“We’ve also worked hard to create a less draggy🤪 car, and to add performance in the corners.”

Mercedes have redesigned the chassis and gea♈rbox casing on the W15, something that was not possible during the 2023 season due to the constraints of the F1 cost cap.

“A new chassis and a gearbox were sไtandard for every year, pre-cost cap🍃. And there'll be several other teams who have done both things in a single year,” Allison explained.

“But the cost cap does force you to pick and choose your battles, and there's no doubt that having a new outer casing as well as at the same time as having ꦍa new chassis are two big projects that are going to take a chunk of our available firepower.

“That is what we have done this year. It does mean that in other parts of the car we have not tried to reinvent the wheel. But it has allowed us to undertake a couple of big projects without breaking the bank and𝓰 we believe that this is a good and important use of our efforts.”

There has also been a significant pu🎃sh to improve the a💞erodynamic efficiency of the latest Mercedes.

“With this current generatioꦇn of cars, so much of the performance comes from how the floor interacts with the road,” Allison added.

“Whether or not a car is effective is down to how well that floor is permitted to 🏅behave aerodynamically.”

Allison revealed that Mercedes have also worked on improving their pit stop times over the winter, having acknowledged that was a pre💟vious weakness compared to their competitors.

“There’s also been some housekeeping on areas in which we had room for improvement, incඣluding the DRS effect, and pit stop perform🍸ance,” he said.

“We were always very good at delivering a pit stop in a repeatable time, which is the key thing for 🌞a pit stop.

“The repeatable time that we could do our pit stops in was st𒈔ill three to four tenths slower than the best teams, though. So hopefully we will have moved in the right direction there.”

The key question ♐is; are Mercedes happy with the results of their development?

"I feel like we have delivered on all the things we said we wꦑanted to do,” Allison said.

“Some aspects are unbounded and therefore you c♉an never be fully satisfied. We will not know until we run the car truly. But I think we can say that we feel like we have worked well.

“Formula 1 is a relative ܫgame. Whether we've worked well enough to be competitive,🥀 only time will tell. We do not know what everyone else has done.”