Mercedes is set to change its sidepod concept early into the 2023 F1 season 🛠️ Here’s why and the latest on the new W14 ⬇️
, with the car featuring a more aggressive version of the ‘zero-pod’ concept that it ran with last season.now alone in its sidepod design, as most rivals have copied Red Bull’s idea, it has emerged that it too is also readying a different solution.
“Throughout last season we have analysed it back and forth, whether it was right or not,” he said. “Obviously you can see the sidepods are very different to any other car. “On the sidepods, this is the first iteration and, when we're going through the first few races, that's going to change a little bit.”The planned changes to the sidepods suggests that the Mercedes concept does not deliver the gains that other designs do.
Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Mick Schumacher, Mercedes Reserve Driver, Toto Wolff, Mercedes F1 Team Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes W14“I think it's important to be bold in the sport and I'm still proud of the solutions that were put on the car last year,” he said. “Our sidepod design is not something that we believe was fundamentally the reason why we didn't perform.”
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