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Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes will “roll back” on some of their upgrades, to see if they are causing a dip in performance. Autosport confirms the team will not run their upgraded floor in Baku.
Ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton said he has a “gut” feeling that Mercedes’ recent upgrades are the reason for the team’s post-summer break performance struggles.
“I think there’s lots of question marks on a lot of it,” the Briton said.
“I think we’re just trying to understand it. It could be a number of things. It could be track-dependent.
“It could be the upgrade – my gut is telling me that it’s probably the upgrade. It’s hard to see the difference between the two.
“But we’re going to try this weekend roll back on some of it and see whether or not we can spot it.
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“There’s a lot of work going on just to analyse it, because it really gives the team a direction of where they’re going in development.
“This is the car for next year as well,” the Briton concluded.
Autosport has since confirmed that in Azerbaijan Mercedes will not run their upgraded floor, which was introduced at Spa.
“Autosport/Motorsport.com understands that Mercedes has decided not to run the Spa floor at all in Baku to gain a full weekend of data on how the car – which had upgrades to its diffuser, beam wing, front wing and halo that remain fitted, meaning Mercedes has not reverted to its full pre-Spa Hungarian GP specification – performs without it,” the publication wrote.
