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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says “there will be a little bit” of upgrades the team is “bringing to Barcelona and many more things in the races that follow”.
Mercedes introduced its big upgrade package at the Monaco Grand Prix, however, the team’s technical boss James Allison says the team is bringing more upgrades to Barcelona.
“We certainly will settle back and and look at what the Monaco upgrade package has brought us at a more normal track,” Allison said in Mercedes’ Monaco Grand Prix debrief video.
“But we will also push on in parallel with a whole bunch more things. So there will be a little bit we’re bringing to Barcelona and many more things in the races that follow.
“We can’t afford to just do everything sequentially. Although there’s a sort of academic purity to that, it’s just too slow way ahead.
“So the upgrades will keep coming. Hopefully a decent package to build upon what we put on the track in Monaco and we just step forward from here up to the summer break and beyond.”
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The Briton also says it is “too early” to judge the upgrades, since the Monaco circuit is such a unique track on the F1 calendar.
“I would say it’s too early to say what their impact will be on the rest of the season because Monaco is such a terribly difficult place to make these sort of judgements at.
“We didn’t set the world on fire in qualifying but the car had reasonably tidy race pace and we will wait until the next race to find out to see where we truly stand at a more normal track.
“But the drivers seemed to give reasonable feedback about the car. They felt good under braking, the car felt okay.
“And the data we took off the car off the aerodynamic sensors were not giving us any alarm bells.
“They were suggesting that things were in line with expectation,” Allison concluded.
