🗣️ 'If we look at all the data we've had over the entire year, Max is going to be quick. We don't expect it to be anything other than a very, very hardcore battle.' Mercedes expects hard F1 fight with Red Bull in BrazilGP:
showed great pace in the sprint, trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin cautioned that potentially warmer conditions could favour the Milton Keynes-based team in the grand prix itself."If we look at all the data we've had over the entire year, Max is going to be quick," Shovlin said."If the track is warmer, it will probably help some of their issues.
"So we'll see what we can do. We don't expect it to be anything other than a very, very hardcore battle. But we're trying desperately hard to get our first win." "It might be that they knew it was a weak tyre, and they're getting it out of the way today, rather than having to run two of those tomorrow. So I suspect it was strategically the lesser of two evils."Shovlin said that the team had found a"good window" with the W13 on Saturday.
"This morning we didn't feel that we were in great shape, with quite a lot of rear overheating, and possibly the cooler conditions suited us today.
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