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Mercedes’ Trackside Engineerig Director Andrew Shovlin says the 2024 car “will be different”, and the team has made “a lot of changes to it”.
After a disappointing qualifying session at Suzuka, Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin, standing in for absent team boss Toto Wolff, confirmed the team’s 2024 car will be significantly different from this year’s challenger.
“We have set ourselves very ambitious targets, we are changing the car quite considerably for next year,” Shovlin said.
“Whether or not we can solve all the issues that we’ve got on the handling, that will depend on a number of projects delivering.
“Those projects are under way. They are not complete. But we have got some good directions to try to improve that.
“The car will be different. We have made a lot of changes to it, but it is very early in the development of a new car to say we’ve got it sorted.
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“Lewis and George together are always giving us feedback on where the weaknesses are, and while they might be identifying different causes we know fundamentally their car doesn’t have enough stability.
“We know they don’t have the confidence to throw it into a high-speed corner here and know that the rear’s not going to slide more than they want and be a bit of a challenge.
“So you can build a clear picture of where you need to develop and we are certainly not clinging on to any concepts we had before.
“We are very open-minded and we have had a very chastening couple of years, and we are a team working very hard to try to get back to the front,” the Briton concluded.
