Mercedes have won three of the last four races, but are still dealing with a significant issue.
Director of Mercedes’ trackside engineering, Andrew Shovlin, has acknowledged that his team may require many upgrade packages to address the issue of the W15’s tires overheating. This would mean that Lewis Hamilton’s tenure with the Silver Arrows would come to an end on the solution date.
For Mercedes, the 2024 campaign has been a wild journey. With the fourth-fastest car at the beginning of the year, the Brackley-based team was closer to Aston Martin than it was to the top three competitors.
Every week, Hamilton and teammate George Russell were obviously annoyed, but after the Monaco Grand Prix, something snapped, and Mercedes started to realise the potential of the W15.
Between them, Hamilton and Russell won three Grand Prix races in the six races held before the summer hiatus, two of which were won by outright pace.Mercedes is currently a weekly winner, despite the fact that they are still facing some serious issues.
Shovlin gave an explanation of the team’s current state, saying, “I think at tracks like Silverstone, we had a very stable rear end.” We were unstable in Budapest and Austria. All of that can be attributed to the fact that we appear to be running our tires hotter than the rest.
“We are aware that we must address that issue. Although we want to do so, a single aero update is insufficient to address that kind of issue. To attempt and stay ahead of it, a number of advances will culminate in it.
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