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Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering director Andrew Shovlin says Mercedes can bring “so much performance” to their car “relatively quickly”, while team boss Toto Wolff says they will “take a chainsaw” to the car ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Mercedes is facing a lot of performance issues with their car in 2022. After the Bahrain Grand Prix Andrew Shovlin said the team needs to solve these issues as soon as possible if they want to challenge for the world title.
“Our priority has to be to get on top of our current performance issues,” Shovlin said.
“We don’t have a car to fight for pole or race wins, and that isn’t something that we can tolerate for long if we hold ambitions to win the championships.
“The balance was quite tricky, but the main issue is just a lack of grip, caused by the fact that we have to run the car so high to avoid the bottoming.”
The Briton then explained Mercedes has already identified how they can bring a lot more performance to the car.
“The gaps are pretty big, but we can see so much performance that we can bring relatively quickly. The team has also worked well and the car has been reliable.
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“We have a lot of ideas to explore to improve our pace and we’ll be working hard over the next few days and weeks to bring those to the track,” Shovlin concluded.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said the team will take radical measures to make the car faster.
“It’s easier to shed drag off the car because you simply take a chainsaw and cut the rear wing to bits and so that is what we will be doing for Jeddah,” the Austrian told Sky Sports F1.
“I think we were probably over-winged. We had too much drag and that is just because we are lacking parts at the moment and hopefully we can remedy that.
“It is half or a little bit more maybe of the top speed advantage, but we need to really leave no stone unturned on the power unit side,” concluded Wolff.
