Mercedes are continuing to keep their cards near their chest with Toto Wolff decreasing the opportunity to state where they have actually invested their advancement tokens.
After the brand-new policies were frozen up until the 2022 project, groups are restricted in how they can even more establish their vehicles for the 2021 season and have simply 2 tokens each to invest.
Many groups have actually been quite upcoming about which locations of their brand-new automobile they have actually chosen to target however Mercedes are definitely not one of them.
As all of us wait and see to which Mercedes in fact shows up at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, they are not prepared to provide anybody an assisting hand in how the W12 varies from its predecessor.
” Not whatever requires to be put in the general public,” Wolff stated in Bahrain.
” This is likewise a war on details, a competitors of details, and I make certain you have not seen all the vehicles in the spec they are going to be raced in Bahrain, so that becomes part of it.”
One location that Mercedes might not keep a trick was their brand-new wavy flooring which was taped up throughout their W12 launch.
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However once again, Wolff was not prepared to reveal excessive details on the brand-new intro.
He continued: “If I were to begin on the advantages of the flooring for aero functions you would most likely get the incorrect details!
” I believe it looks great. [It’s about] optimising the flooring around the absence of aerodynamic efficiency we have with the brand-new policies. Let’s see whether it can be equated into genuine efficiency.”
The brand-new aerodynamic policies for 2021 were anticipated to slow the vehicles down this season however tire maker Pirelli reckon the losses are well on their method to being recuperated.
” The distinction compared to in 2015 is extremely, extremely, extremely little,” stated Pirelli’s Solution 1 employer Mario Isola, as estimated by Motorsport.com.
” I have actually attempted to make some estimation on the lap times compared to in 2015 which’s why I’m informing you that, if we think about that most likely the track [in Bahrain] was not in ideal condition, plus the decrease in downforce, and the fuel level, so thinking about fuel fixed lap times, I think that we are not visiting a delta lap time or a distinction in minimized efficiency compared to in 2015.
” I think that compared to the initial strategy to have a downforce decrease in the series of 10 percent, the groups were working around the adjustments and the existing scenario is most likely a downforce decrease in the series of 4 to 5 percent.”
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