Mercedes have revealed that they plan to “alternate” which of their drivers get any of the new upgrades first after168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton voluntarily allowed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell to run the revised front wing at the Mona𝐆co Grand Prix.

Mꦆercedes had just one new front wing available for the weekend in Monaco which was🦋 run on Russell’s car.

It transpired after t🤡he weekend that Hamilton allowed his teammate to run it - avoiding the need for a “coin-toss” - to fears of damaging it and potentially having to start from the pit lane due to parc ferme r𝐆egulations.

Teams t🧸ypically tend to give whichever driv🦹er is ahead in the points standings the upgrade first, but that doesn’t seem to be the case at Mercedes.

If Mercedes have just a single update and one available 🦩for a particular weekend, it will be alternated between the 🦩drivers.

“We’re looking to have race quantities of that wing in Montreal,” Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin explained i𒊎n their latest YouTube video. “Normally you’d say race quantities is at least three because you’ve got one for each car and then you’ve got൲ a spare available should anything happen. Now, we didn’t make three in one go.

“We make the first, then the second, then the third. And an upshot of that is that we had one 🦋we could bring to Monaco, have it ready for Friday to do the weekend. A while ago the drivers said, ‘Why do we always wait until we’ve got a full set?. Why not just let one of us run it?’

“So we agreed with them that given the situation with the team in terms of performance we need t𒊎o improve and we need to learn, and it’s quite good to have different specs on the car in order to do that. So we did agree with the drivers where we are now we will be happy to bring one to the track - and they were both happy with thꦉat.

“The difficult question was how do we decide who runs it? Theꦺre aꦍctually Lewis said, ‘if we are going to start doing this where we haven’t got both parts, let George run it in Monaco’. There will be races in the future where we will have a single update so we will just alternate from here on in. Lewis actually made that decision quite simple for us.”

Mercedes arguably enjoyed their most competitive weekend of the year last time out in the principality as Russell qualified within 0.3s of pole position before finishing fifth ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

Given the unique nature of Monaco, Shovlin admitted𒐪 that the true benefit of the new front wing won’t be felt until probably Barcelona.

“Th🔯ere’s a reason teams don’t bring upgrade kits to Monaco which is t🌠he very low speed nature of the circuit,” he added.

“The fact it’s so busy, the short straights, it’s very hard to evaluate anything. All the data we have seen though saysඣ it was delivering performance. It was bringing a benefit. In terms of how the car was feelin꧑g, George was happy with that and he could feel it was a step in the right direction.

“We’re defin🔯itely happy with what we have seen to date. We will learn more from Montreal and particularly when you get to a track like Barcelona with a wider cornering speed range, you can really start to learn about it there.”