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Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin says Lewis Hamilton said the upgraded W14 “feels decent on the brakes and he’s got confidence”.
In Monaco Mercedes finally introduced its big upgrade package for the W14, and the first impressions seem to be good.
More specifically, the team’s chief engineer Andrew Shovlin says Lewis Hamilton said he now has more confidence in the car.
“He’s said some good things about the car this weekend,” Shovlin said on the F1 Nation podcast.
“He said it feels decent on the brakes and he’s got confidence.
“We’re a bit disappointed with qualifying. We could’ve put a bit better showing in if we’d got everything right in Q3.”
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However, Shovlin adds the team is aware it will take a lot more to beat Red Bull.
“But you know everyone is bringing upgrades, it’s a busy time of the year for that.
“As I said, we put a lot of work into it, people have done a good job to bring it so rapidly. There’s a huge amount of new stuff on the car.
“We’re confident that what we’ve done is a good direction, but we’re also confident it’s probably not gonna be enough and we’ve got more work to do,” the Briton concluded.
