Andrew Shovlin has described Mercedes’ start to the 2025 F1 season as “a lot calmer than the last few years”, highlighting the team's sign♋ificant progress. 

Mercedes have struggled to get to grips with the ground effect regula💦tions since the start of 2022.

The eight-time F1 constructors’ champions picked up one victoryℱ across 2022 and 2023.

While they slipped back to fourth in 2024, they managed four race wins🍌.

The W15 (2024 car) wa♑s peakyﷺ, only performing at low downforce tracks or cool track temperatures.

Its successor - the W16 - has been a consistent performer💮 so far in 2025, albeit a little bit off McLaren in raw pace terms.

Sꦬpeaking in Friday’s FIA press conference, Shovlin reflected on an encouraging start for Mercedes this year.

“Well, it's been a lot calmer than the last few years, mainly because the car is 🃏what we intended it to be,” Shovlin explained.

“It hasn't really got the vices that we've had in a couple of previous years and that's down to doing good work over the winter. Good work🔜 last year to try and understand the problems.

“So far, we haven't seen many circuits, but it's wဣorked well over the ones we have and through a range of conditions. So it's good.

“There's clearly a gap to McLaren that we need to chip away at, but that looks mo𓃲re like just a normal development race that we need to get stuck into rather than trying to get on top of any of the handling vices that we’ve ha𓄧d.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell “relaxed in his position”

With 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton leaving the team at tꦜhe end of last year to join Ferrari, Russell is now Merceꦦdes’ clear leader.

He’s started th♍e ꦦseason in impressive fashion, scoring back-to-back podium finishes in Australia and China.

Shovlin sees Russell as “relaxed in his posi🍰tion in the team now” following Hamilton’s departure.

“Certainly within the team, he's very calm,” Shovlin🎃 added. “He seems very confident. He's done a great job in the first two races, so that's been really encouraging.

🐼“He just seems to be very relaxed in his position in the team now and he's just going about getting the points, trying to qualify as well as he can. Front row in China was very encouraging.

“He's pushing us hard to improv♒e and he's doing a lot of work himself.”