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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says “there are absolutely improvements that we would like to make on our current car that we know will also carry into next year”.
There has been a lot of talk about teams stopping the development of their 2023 cars to focus on next year’s challengers.
However, Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says a lot of what is being developed for this year will be carried over to the next.
“We are only just round about halfway through the season and there is plenty more development to come in these cars,” the Briton said in Mercedes’ British Grand Prix debrief video.
“All of the teams will of course be turning their attention to next year and that will defang all of us a little bit in terms of the rate of which we can improve our cars.
“There are absolutely improvements that we would like to make on our current car that we know will also carry into next year.
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“So it doesn’t feel like throwing good money after bad. The feeling is that you are investing in both seasons with those upgrades.
“For us yes, you will see the upgrades coming for a little while longer. I suspect for the others too.
“What you will get in this next sequence of races is a little bit of yoyoing for position in a very closely packed bunch as upgrades make the difference for one team for a while, until someone else will come out of sequence with another upgrade a race or two later to even things back out.
“Where it will all settle down for the final quarter to one third of a season, we will see.
“Hopefully we will have our noses in front and be able to have a strong second half of the season,” Allison concluded.
