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Mercedes Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin says the Hungarian Grand Prix will be a “test of whether or not we have got on top of our long run performance in hot conditions”.
After winning the Austrian and British grands prix, Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin says the team is aware that maintaining that performance level in Hungary will not be easy.
“Well, we certainly don’t think: ‘We won the last one, let’s go and win the next one,’” the Briton said.
“It almost makes you a bit more nervous that maintaining that performance we had in Silverstone is going to be very difficult.”
However, Shovlin says the team knows what they have to prepare for.
“If you look at what is the big difference for Hungary, it’s probably this is the test of whether or not we have got on top of our long run performance in hot conditions.
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“Because in Barcelona and in Austria, we couldn’t match Lando [Norris] or Max [Verstappen] on the long run. Both those two cars were well ahead of us.
“Now, we hopefully will have made a bit of progress. If you look at the size of the gap at those two previous races, I’d be surprised if we can pull it in that significantly.
“But then again, we surprised ourselves with the first stint in Silverstone. We can simulate some of those problems from Silverstone and Barcelona.
“We know the type of issues that will throw our way and we’ll just put our effort into the preparation side and make sure that we can start with the best setup that we can, and how do we develop it from there,” he concluded.
