F1 tech expert sheds light on Mercedes' ongoing performance woes amid tricky start to 2024.
For the third consecutive campaign, Mercedes have endured a challenging start to a new F1 season. Despite revamping their car design, the W15 underwhelmed in the hands of
“The W15 has been designed to run super-low in the belief that the bouncing could now be better controlled than with the W13 through the combination of underfloor and suspension design. The W15’s performance in Jeddah was therefore quite worrying. “In Jeddah Free Practice 3, Hamilton tried raising the ride height in an attempt at getting out of the bouncing window. To counteract the reduction in underbody downforce this will have had on other parts of the track, he also ran the rear wing in a higher downforce setting. Russell stayed with the lower downforce wing,” he wrote.
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