Mercedes 2024 F1 is confident that it can close the gap against Red Bull this winter. After the massive bounce that Aston Martin and McLaren made with their Formula One vehicles in 2023.
Mercedes has endured through a difficult campaign in which the lead it had expected to create with the W14 faded to materialize because to being on the back foot versus Red Bull.
It realized early in the season that it had misunderstood its overall car concept and had planned to run its aero stage too high, resulting in insufficient execution compared to competitors who run considerably closer to the ground.
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Mercedes Ambitious Overhaul for 2024: Chasing Red Bull’s Dominance in F1
The team recognises that a significant revision of its strategy for 2024 will yield profits. Allow Lewis Hamilton and George Russell to finally compete against Red Bull on equal grounds. In any event, the scope of the task appears enormous, with Red Bull totally dominating with its benchmark RB19 car, which has won every race so far this F1 season.
Red Bull is also expected to have had an early start on the development of the RB20. Since it has had a healthy lead throughout the current campaign. This implies that it is not necessary to present a series of significant achievements.
Toto Wolff said;
“I think where we are, we just need a step that McLaren and Aston Martin have achieved in one go. It is not making a two tenths update, but a five tenths update and then you’re back in the game. So yeah, I think it’s possible.”
Mercedes currently possesses a much better grasp of the automotive concepts that are crucial for success in the modern era of ground effects. Wolff stated that they were actively making various revisions to the W15 design.
In any event, he admitted that Mercedes did not have all of the answers. It was still researching a number of highways to determine the best method to upgrade them.
Wolff explained.
“I think we have a few directions. If we would know it would be much easier, but the car is just very unpredictable and lacks grip. So, there are plenty of things that you need to tackle. We tend to believe in F1 that there’s a silver bullet that’s going to unlock everything. I think we just need to put components together to make them work together in the car. There’s not one topic that I would call out.”
