Mercedes have revealed early details about their 2025 F1 car to select media including Crash.net.
car will “likely be a close cousin” of their current challenger as they dropped the first design hints about the W16.
“The main remaining weaknesses in - in hot conditions at rear-limited circuits we’re not as good as the McLarens, or Max ,” Shovlin said in response to a question from Crash.net. “So there's always there's always going to be a focus just on how much development you can bring. And we can only see, you know, a month or six weeks into the future, because that's the that's the sort of horizon that you're working with in your wind tunnel.
After a disappointing start to the 2024 season, Mercedes have enjoyed a competitive resurgence of late, winning three of the four races prior to the summer shutdown. “We do want to be fighting at the front next year. So we're always going to make decisions that mean that that is a possibility. And then in terms of the wind tunnel, you've got the point at which you progressively shift resource from the current car to next year's car.
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