And the struggles keep coming for Mercedes...
Never mind his W15, George Russell ’s latest issue for the 2024 F1 season is his helmet and the way the dirty air off the car ahead is “buffeting” it.
Although there have been no major technical changes to this year’s regulations, dirty air has seemingly been a bigger problem for the cars following this season. “There has been a lot of development with the aero package and now, unfortunately, we are back in a situation where, when you follow another car, you lose downforce,” he said. “At the beginning of 2022, this effect was not there.
“And, unfortunately, because of the fast and flowing nature of this track, if you follow another car and you are in traffic, you lose quite a lot of downforce.
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