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Mercedes introduced several upgrades at Spa, as well as a new low-drag rear wing. However, while Lewis Hamilton ran the new wing, George Russell opted to use the old version.
Mercedes introduced a new upgrade package ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, and also a new low-drag rear wing.
However, while Lewis Hamilton ran the new wing, George Russell chose not to make the switch.
In Mercedes’ Belgian Grand Prix debrief video, the team’s Chief Technical Officer explained why that is.
“Like every race weekend we go in by doing an amount of work in the simulator,” Elliott said.
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“An amount of work to try and get the general balance requirements of the car right, work out what downforce level we want to run, work out where we are going to place our mechanical balance, our aero balance, just to get ourselves roughly in the right window.
“So the two drivers did that programme before the Spa race weekend, in George’s case he felt that the bigger rear-wing gave him some options.
“He preferred the balance of the car driving with that, so he elected to start the race weekend with that.
“And normally what happens is the two drivers come together over the race weekend, but obviously this weekend was pretty wet, there was no dry running and both of them quite liked the car they got, so elected to stay where they were,” Elliott concluded.
