Mercedes says it won't copy the design of rival F1 cars when it introduces a new sidepod package for its 2023 car.
His comments suggest that while the team is planning to move away from the"size-zero" design introduced in Bahrain a year ago on the W13, it won't necessarily be following the trend towards the concept used so successfully by Red Bull last year, and since copied by others.
"I think, for us, it's how we developed the car last year," said Elliott when asked about the decision to initially stick with the W13 concept. "As it happens, as Toto already said, we've got different bodywork coming, it won't be the same as other people's, and it won't be the same as what we've got, but it'll be different.""It's just part of the normal development," he said."We have got a different sidepod that's coming in, but it takes time to bring that it takes time to make the bits, it takes time to sort of change the bits to go underneath the bodywork for it to fit.
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