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Mercedes Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin talks about the areas where Mercedes is ahead of Red Bull.
Mercedes managed to win three out of the first four races in 2021, even though Red Bull is thought to have the faster car. Andrew Shovlin believes Mercedes’ race success comes down to car balance.
“We are still not really at a stage where we go in thinking we’ve got a better race car or we are better at looking after the tyres,” Shovlin explained.
“It is actually quite hard to say what it was [in the Spanish Grand Prix]. We were able to sit behind them and, when you are the lead car and someone can sit on your gearbox for a whole stint, it is not normally good news.
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“But we are still in the stage of the year where we are collecting data across the different tracks. But it does look to be a bit of a trend that maybe we have got a slightly more neutral car.
“Theirs seems to be a bit harder on the rear tyres over a stint whereas we are using both axles quite well.
“But we will see with some more data whether that is really a feature of the car or just how we are setting it up,” concluded the Briton.
