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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says “you’d have to be psychotic to be bullishly confident” about your new car, before you “get to the track and start using it in anger”.
Mercedes is currently working hard to put the finishing touches on their 2024 car, hoping that it will propel the team back to the front of the field.
However, the team’s Technical Director James Allison warns against too much confidence, before all cars take to the track.
“On the technical side at least, I don’t think any team has ever been anything other than apprehensive at this time of year, alongside excited or whatever,” the Briton said.
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“But I think you’d have to be psychotic to be bullishly confident, because you only know one side of the equation, which is what you’ve done.
“And there have been years where you’ve run a car for the first time and the drivers sort of got out and said: ‘Well spend your bonus, this is a brilliant one.’
“But even then you don’t really believe it until you get to the track and start using it in anger and everyone else is alongside you,” Allison concluded.
