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After the first day of pre-season testing, Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin says “the performance picture is always blurred after the first day so it’s impossible to say where we stand”.
After Mercedes finished the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, Andrew Shovlin gave the team’s first impressions of their 2023 car in action.
“We’ve had a solid start to testing,” the Briton said.
“The car has run faultlessly from start to finish and that has allowed us to complete an ambitious programme for day one.
“It always takes a few days to understand a new car, but we’ve got a reasonable handle on where we want to improve the balance.
“It was encouraging that it’s a much calmer, more stable platform to work with than the W13.
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“The performance picture is always blurred after the first day so it’s impossible to say where we stand, but we’ve already identified several key areas where we can find some performance.
“We’ll work on the assumption that we’re playing catch up and need to pull out all the stops to find performance ahead of the first race here in one week’s time.
“The next two days are going to be just as packed as today as we’re squeezing every bit of learning we can into the programme.
“Hopefully the car continues to run like clockwork, and we can make the most of the remaining track time,” Shovlin concluded.
