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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says the upgrades that Mercedes introduced at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix have worked.
At the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Mercedes introduced the second part of its first significant upgrade package of 2024, and even though the results did not show it, the team’s Technical Director James Allison says the upgrades worked.
“I would say yes,” the Briton said.
“This weekend’s stuff was actually part two of the part one that arrived, the first half of which arrived in the previous race, and we completed that step in Imola.
“It’s always hard to judge because you’re comparing whether your stuff is working on a playing field that is continuously in motion.
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“A lot of other teams were bringing new kit, Ferrari with their upgrade in Imola and McLaren with a load of stuff for the previous race.
“You measure what you measure on your car, but ultimately the truly telling thing about whether your stuff worked is did you move forwards?
“Because that’s the purpose of upgrades, is it actually propelling you up the grid in any meaningful way? ”
“And I would say based on the race pace that we saw in Imola that we took a gentle step forward. We are several tenths of a second now nearer the front than we were at the start of the year and in Imola itself, I think we moved a tenth or two nearer to the front.
“So pretty happy with that,” Allison concluded.
