Mercedes have “extra apparent” upgrades within the pipeline for introduction throughout the approaching European F1 races.
The German producer at present sits second within the constructors’ championship, 105 factors adrift of McLaren, having emerged from the winter as the closest challengers to the reigning world champions on the majority of the early rounds in 2025.
Mercedes are but to win a race however George Russell’s very good type has seen him declare three third-place finishes and a P2 in Bahrain, with the workforce showing to have addressed a few of their large weaknesses with their new W16 automotive.
The Silver Arrows have been bringing small updates to their 2025 challenger throughout the opening six rounds however have extra sizeable upgrades deliberate for the upcoming Imola-Monaco-Barcelona triple-header.
“We’ve got really been bringing upgrades,” Mercedes technical director James Allison mentioned within the workforce’s newest post-race debrief video.
“They’re not significantly type of monumental or attractive, however they’ve been coming in a gradual trickle.
“There’s some that might be extra apparent to the surface world within the subsequent handful of races. And optimistically, they’ll enhance our fortunes.
“However we’re 1 / 4 of the way in which by the season already. It’s been coming on the groups onerous and quick. It’s really fairly troublesome to get upgrades to the automotive when the races are coming at you on this type of machine-gun trend.
“So hopefully those that occur within the subsequent two or three races will transfer the dial a bit for us and likewise as we are going to proceed to attempt to work on the tyre temperature within the races, that will even enhance our fortune.”
What’s the focus of Mercedes’ upgrades?
Whereas Mercedes have been robust in qualifying, their race tempo has been missing at instances, significantly in Saudi Arabia the place Russell and rookie teammate Kimi Antonelli completed a low-key fifth and sixth.
Allison is hopeful the approaching upgrades will allow Mercedes to take a step ahead on Sundays.
“As a result of we’ve been fairly robust in qualifying for the primary a number of races, I feel we are able to count on to have an okay shout of getting the automotive moderately nicely up the grid in qualifying,” he defined.
“Confidently, the upgrades would possibly make {that a} bit higher nonetheless. However the primary factor we’ll be specializing in is making an attempt to get that race tempo below management, making an attempt to guarantee that we ship on the promise of our Saturdays on the Sunday.
“And that’s all about – or, the vast majority of will probably be about – controlling the temperature of these tyres and ensuring the automotive can due to this fact use the tempo that’s in it.”
