The automobile has been stricken by bouncing, particularly with low gas in qualifying, whereas its weak spot in high-speed corners relative to rivals was very obvious in Saudi Arabia.
Shovlin means that the workforce will strive totally different approaches on the upcoming Australian GP because it continues to hone the automobile.
“There’s undoubtedly information that we’re selecting via from Jeddah,” he stated.
“We’re additionally information from the Bahrain race, Bahrain check, and we are going to provide you with a plan for the way we method free apply in Melbourne. But it surely’s not simply based mostly on what we did in Jeddah.
“There’s a number of work happening throughout the aerodynamics division, car dynamics division.
“We’re attempting to design some experiments there that can hopefully give us a route that is good for efficiency.”
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director, Mercedes-AMG
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Shovlin confirms that high-speed nook efficiency is among the key points that the workforce is with a watch on Australia. He means that the weak spot that proved expensive in Bahrain was attributable to a mix of things.
“It’s a number of issues,” he stated.
“Certainly one of them was the stability wasn’t nice. So these very quick corners, the partitions aren’t notably distant – so those the place the driving force needs a number of confidence – and very often we have been snapping to oversteer in the event that they actually leant on the tyres.
“And you may simply think about how unsettling that’s for the drivers. Now, that was a consider qualifying and the race.
“In qualifying we have been additionally struggling a bit with the bouncing. That was much less of an issue within the race. There’s extra gas on the automobile. You are going a bit slower. And that appeared to settle down, and wasn’t such a difficulty.
“After which the massive one is we do not actually have sufficient grip there. In order that’s one of many issues that we’re working laborious on this week, as a result of Melbourne has comparable nature of corners.
“So we’re doing a number of work to try to perceive why did we not appear to have the grip of a few of our shut opponents.”
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15
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Shovlin notes that Lewis Hamilton and George Russell took totally different set-up instructions over the Jeddah weekend.
“A few of that was they’d complained about bouncing,” he defined. “So we have been methods of attempting to enhance that. You possibly can play with experience heights, you possibly can play with stiffness, and that every one appears efficient.
“And in addition they have been simply attempting to tune the stability via the velocity vary. So what is the automobile like within the low-speed? What’s it like within the high-speed?”
Though the automobiles later converged, Shovlin says that helpful classes have been realized: “Whenever you change issues, you possibly can see the variations. So, one automobile making adjustments, you possibly can see the way it performs run-to-run.
“We are able to additionally have a look at the worldwide efficiency of the 2 automobiles, however basically, the restrictions that we had in qualifying and the race, they have been broadly the identical for each.
“So it is telling you it isn’t a small distinction, it isn’t a tiny little bit of camber or a spring or bar right here and there. It is one thing extra basic that we have to dig into and perceive.”