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Mercedes’ Chief Technical Officer James Allison says he expects the the W13’s problems to be solved “in the next two or three races”.
Mercedes is facing a lot of issues with their car early on in the 2022 season, but James Allison says all of the problems are fixable.
“It is a big job,” the Briton said in Mercedes’ Abu Dhabi Grand Prix debrief video.
“We are something like 0.6 of a second, maybe more, off the pace of the leaders in Bahrain but we are carrying a lot of problems and a lot of problems that all have solutions and all of those solutions are within our compass to deliver.
“Yes, it is challenging but actually after winter testing I’d feared worse and I think actually the performance improvement we’ve managed to deliver from winter testing to the first race, while perhaps not visible to the fans and perhaps not reassuring to the fans, is reassuring in house here within the team.
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“And what we have ahead of us, the way in which we are approaching the problems and the way in which we will bring solutions also gives me some comfort that we will get back to a competitive car quite swiftly and that we will be able to pursue the objective we have of championships.”
Allison goes on to say he expects the problems to be solved “in the next two or three races”.
“It is a big job, it is an ambitious car, some will argue that perhaps we have bitten off more than we can chew with it but we are very good chewers in this team and we intend to put these problems right as quickly as possible, hopefully in the next two or three races.
“But in any case we will put them right and we will get our car back at the front of the grid competing as we all intend to, to allow us to pursue our dream of championship success,” the CTO concluded.
