Upcoming Mercedes F1 upgrades will ‘define their season and maybe even 2025’
The rဣest of Mercedes' 2024 season - and potentially 2025 - could hinge on upgrades, it has been claimed.
Martin Brundle believes Mercedes’ upcoming F1 upgrades will “defin🌼e the rest of their season and maybe ev✤en 2025”.
Mercedes brought an upgrade package to the Miami Grand Prix but their underwhelming start to the 2024 season continued when both168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell were knoc❀ked out in the second part of sprint qualifying, and failed to score points in the sprint ra🅘ce.
Things improved in regular qualifying as they took seventh and eighth but ended up over eight tenths down on Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen. Hamilton wꦿent on to finish sixth in the grand prix, with Russell eighth 🔯after a difficult race.
Mercedes have more updates in the pipeline and Brundle reckons these will be crucial to determining whether they can fix♓ the iss🔜ues with their W15 car.
“Lewis Hamilton ha🧸d a feisty and fine race to sixth place including a coupl♚e of great overtakes, one in particular against the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg which was very brave,” Brundle wrote in his post-race column for Sky.
“The Mercedes had good speed in the closing stages, but once again both he and George Russell h⭕ad a weekend of confusing and hi🍎ghly variable pace.
“Merc🌳edes have some upgrades coming which will define the rest of their season and maybe even 2025, and demonstrate whether or not they can define and fix what is wrong with the car.
“Here's hoping they do, because the upgrad🥃ed McLaren looks to be closer to Red Bull, and Ferrari are eagerly looking forward to their imminent upgrades too.”
🍬Russell conceded after the race in Miami that Mercedes have a “painful few weeks” in store.
“McLaren qualified P17 and P18 12 months ago in Mi♋ami, and they won, so it shows what is possible when you get things right," Russell said. “But right now, we don't have things right and need to make changes quickly.
“We do have a few things coming in the🌳 short-term but nothing in the ꦫshort-term that is going to transform us into race winners.
“🃏So it is going to be painful for a few weeks. I think we have to accept that we are the fourt♏h fastest-team.
“The lap-times and the championship don'tꦚ lie, this is where we are and I think we're fighting for the P5-P8 region week in, week out."
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