Mercedes uncertain if the new car has shed 2024 cold weather bias

Toto Wolf has revealed Mercedes Still it does not know if he has shed his Formula 1 car tendency to perform better in the condition of cold due to unusual weather in the Bahrain pre-season test.

In 2024, three out of the final four wins for the Silver Arrow Squad came into the race for Silverstone, Spa-Francachamps and Las Vegas, where the temperature was quite low, while last season its car could not be done in the work of its tire when the situation was hot when the situation was hot.

Addressing this performance incompatibility has been one of the major objectives of Mercedes in the off-season.

But the rare cold and wet conditions affecting the pre-season of this week in the desert have made it difficult for the team to assess whether it has been successful.

Cotorsport.com to explain what is revealed on the matter, where the temperature has not increased more than 15C, to tell that Wolf has initially joked: “Okay, I am a little worried at this time because it should be a situation where we should be two seconds faster than everyone!

“(He) was the only attraction last year in terms of performance in Las Vegas and we are not (he forward). Therefore, either we have overcome the problem and we are more balanced through climatic conditions.

“We have made a laugh about it, even if we have lost some of that USP. We will see I do not know. “

Given the refined equipment available for the F1 teams in its simulator, Mercedes will be able to correct the data collected so far in Bahrain and will apply to its calculation to the upcoming hotter events.

George Russell Even said, “You have got to try and to think that if the temperature was 20 degrees warm, if the air was 180 degrees different” then about the conditions of the early day in Bahrain – the wide air was the main challenge for the teams.

But simulators cannot repeat random gusts of air that affect the handling strangely for drivers, which are combining with low temperatures this week and making Mercedes jobs difficult.

Russell finished second on the early day, which represents the best day of Mercedes in the Bahrain Pre-Season test of the era of current rules. But the team cannot ensure that if it is an indication it can achieve the best results that were missing last year.

Photos from Bahrain Pre -Seedon Test – Day 2