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Mercedes’ Toto Wolff and Andrew Shovlin say they are confident the team has solved their reliability issues that led to numerous engine swaps.
Mercedes has had to swap numerous engines in the last few races, leading to fears that Lewis Hamilton could need another unit this season.
This of course means he would have to serve at least another grid penalty. However, Toto Wolff says that Mercedes might have got on top of their issues.
“I think we have we’ve gotten on top of the reliability issue that we had,” the Austrian said.
“We didn’t see that phenomenon occur anymore, which is a good step forward. Hopefully, knock on wood, from the reliability side we should be on a good trajectory.”
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Mercedes Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin says the team’s performance in Mexico shows that progress has been made.
“Well, we know that we’ve made a bit of progress,” Shovlin said.
“It’s impossible to say with them [Honda]. I’d say the issues this weekend… We focused on the chassis side and how we could get a bit more grip, stop sliding around and overheating.
“It didn’t feel like we had a deficit on the power unit side. We’ll do analysis on that. It’s just difficult to isolate everything that’s going on at one single race.
“You need to really look at them over a sequence of events to understand that,” concluded the Briton.
