Within the round-up: Mercedes say a key aim for his or her future improvement is addressing their poor efficiency in sluggish corners.
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Mercedes centered on slow-corner good points
Mercedes’ head of trackside engineering stated “the problems that we’re scuffling with [in] this replace are the identical as those we have been scuffling with earlier than,” in a video launched by the crew. “The place we are typically weak is within the sluggish velocity corners, notably those the place you’ve got one nook following into one other.”
He stated the crew will prioritise this space of improvement as their focus shifts to their 2025 automobile, the W16. “The massive focus in these remaining races for us is studying what we will,” he stated.
“We’re ready within the championship the place we can’t problem in entrance of us. It is vitally unlikely we’re going to see any problem from behind. Our focus has very a lot shifted to studying what we have to this 12 months to use to subsequent 12 months with a view to get on prime of these points.”
Rovanpera samples F1 automobile
Purple Bull gave World Rally Championship star Kalle Rovanpera the chance to drive one in all its automobiles yesterday. After apply laps in a Components 4 automobile on the Purple Bull Ring the 24-year-old bought behind the wheel of a 2012-specification RB8.
World Rally Championship ace Kalle Rovanpera sampled a Purple Bull Components 1 automobile on the residence of the Austrian Grand Prix in the present day.#F1 #WRC pic.twitter.com/SybTGApLkZ
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Hughes leads FE check
Jake Hughes was quickest for Maserati on the second day of Components E’s check session in Madrid. His quickest time of of 1’28.604 put him lower than a tenth of a second forward of Kiro’s Dan Ticktum.
The occasion was relocated from Valencia because of the severe flooding in that area final week which claimed over 200 lives.
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