Mercedes reveal impact of new floor on lost pace at Zandvoort

James Allison admits confusion surr👍ounds Mercedes floor

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes have debated whether their new floor impacted a sub-par weekend at Zand꧒voort.

Toto Wolff’s F1 team arrive at Monza for this weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix hoping to quickly forget what went wr⛄ong a week ago.

In the Netherlands, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton declared his weekend was “done” after a poor quaℱlifying before finishing eighth in the grand prix. George Russell was sixth and struggled with grip.

It ended a remar🀅kable run of 🐲three victories in four grands prix.

Technical director James Allison sa🍎id: “It won’t be as s🐼imple as ‘the track doesn’t suit the car’.

“Whether you📖 have a good weekend or not, it’𝓰s dependant on a huge amount of things. They all need to be nearly dead-on right to get what you’d call the true pace of the car.

“In the run-up to shutd♏own, we managed to hit our stride at pretty much every track.

“In Zandvoort with the weather on Friday𓆉 and the decisions we took overnight, we didn’t get into the groove to get the best from the car.

“Small mistakes, small errors in set-up will turn you from c💛ompetitive to mediocre. It’s tight at the top.

“We didn’t get it right, and had a mediocre re🍰sult as a consequꦛence.”

Alli💧son was asked if Mercedes’ new floor played a role in their lack🌼 of pace.

The floor was introduced in Spa then withdrawn after confusing results. It 💟was reintroduced for🎉 the race at Zandvoort.

“The simple answer is: we don’t 🐷fully know,” h♉e admitted.

“You can take straightforward measurements - the downforce was there. On one level, you could take comfort th🧸at it worked as expected.

“But a lot of the pace of the cars this year is how well 🎐they handle.

“It’🎀s not just ‘does your aero package deliver downforce?’ It is ‘does it deliver the balanced car that you need through corners, the balanced car you need from high speed to low speed’.

“We didn’t have a balanced car. That’s where the pace�𝓰� went.

“Wh𝕴ether it was the floor or the aero package? We need to keep an open mind.

“Righ🌞t now, we know it measured the downforce. But we don’t know if it delivered balance.”

Mercedes, e📖ntering Monza, are fourth in the constructors’ champi🌜onship behind Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.

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