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After the first pre-season testing morning session, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says “there’s no bouncing”, and the W14 “seems to be balanced in the right way”.
In the morning session of the first day of 2023 pre-season testing, George Russell had the chance to properly test the car for the first time.
Afterwards, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff gave his first comments on the car.
“It seems to be balanced in the right way,” the Austrian said.
“There’s no bouncing, which is good news, apart from that big bump at the end of the straight.”
Wolff says the team now has “a good starting point”.
“We’re gathering a lot of data because that was important to correlate obviously after last year, and trying different things. So a productive first morning.”
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Toto adds the team “knew that we were in trouble” by the time the second test in Bahrain started back in 2022.
“The car was just bouncing around and we really weren’t able to drive it correctly. So that is very different.
“I think we have a solid base now to work from and try to optimise the car, which we haven’t done yet.
“It’s really just finding out are there any areas that could be a real performance hindrance like last year with the bouncing. We’ve just got to work through the programme.”
The Austrian also says that the team detected “a little bit of movement in turn 12,” this morning. but it was “not anywhere close to the degree that we had last year” and is “not performance-limiting.”
