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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says teams can still find a competitive advantage with Formula 1’s current ground effect cars.
Back in 2022 Formula 1 implemented new technical regulations and ushered in a new era of ground effect cars.
While Mercedes is working hard to deliver a competitive car in 2024, the team’s technical boss James Allison says there are still avenues that can be explored to find a competitive advantage with the current generation of F1 cars.
“I think most people will be iterating down a similar sort of avenue,” the Briton said.
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“But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for innovation at all. These cars, and it is no secret, run super-near the ground and that’s where they get their best performance.
“But there is also the ground there, so it is just trying to figure out how you can reliably, precisely and in an informed way, place the car at a point above the ground that you know will be survivable from a skid legality point of view, but will also give you every bit of downforce that the car is capable of offering.
“There is plenty of action there still,” Allison concluded.
