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Mercedes go into the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend off the back of their best result of the season so far after Hamilton and George Russell both took podium finishes at Paul Ricard last time out although Max Verstappen held a comfortable advantage at the front as he went on to take victory. The team is optimistic that the modifications will bring about a significant performance improvement, but we'll have to wait and see if that is the case. Let's take a look at what every team revealed after the first day of running. The Mercedes cars, while appearing to have a grip on their porpoising issues, have still been bouncing and struggling for pace compared to Red Bull and Ferrari - and Lewis Hamilton even called the W13 "undriveable" amid experiments in Canadian GP practice. Nevertheless the team was encouraged by progress, and by the way it was able to control the bouncing that has been a problem all year, even if it was still evident in some corners. That event was followed by three bumpy street or temporary tracks in Monaco, Baku and Montreal that may have diluted that progress. The front suspension pushrod has also been reshaped as part of the revised flow. Ferrari, for instance, impressed with reliability and pace in Barcelona, but team boss Mattia Binotto says the car's configuration will be "about the same" in Bahrain. Lewis Hamilton says his third place finish in Montreal has given him hope and confidence about the potential of the car in the remainder of the season. But hopefully, as you have seen across the season so far, we are incrementally closing that gap down and we have more to come.. And in a normal race I think it is going to be tough.". Allison explained qualifying remains a concern for Mercedes at present and admitted the Hungarian Grand Prix is unlikely to see the reigning Constructors champions trouble the two front-runners for pole. 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"The rumours about performance in the simulator is that it is monstrous," the newspaper claims. horner "I think Silverstone will be a circuit that suits us a little bit better, like Barcelona did, but maybe it will be just a little bit difficult," added Elliott. Not much controversy this time around for Aston Martin as the team's second major upgrade of the season broke cover on Friday. There is a big bodywork upgrade for the A522 with a "Ferrari-like" channel on the upper surface and an accompanying new floor. said Rosberg on Any Driven Monday. For a better experience, keep your browser up to date. And finally, to complete the set of upgrades, there are modifications on the rear wing and sidepod inlet as well. "Their package looks to be massive. - Henry Valantine. The race pace was okay on Friday, I think we made a step forward overnight, it remains to be seen where we drop out. The vanes on the sidepod have been redesigned to improve the airflow around the cockpit. There are significant modifications made to the floor edge as well, along with the introduction of a completely new lower beam wing for the rest of the 2022 F1 season. To access your subscription or free account. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player, "I think at the same time, though, we have to be honest with ourselves and say at the moment we are just a bit behind those frontrunners in Ferrari and Red Bull. Youll have seen that often we werent the best in Monaco, we werent the best in Mexico. They were they were quite interesting from a point of view of understanding whats not right with the car at the moment. "We will be bringing new bits to Silverstone," he said. While Aston Martin is based out of Silverstone, teams like Red Bull and Mercedes from Milton Keynes and Brackley respectively are not from too far. And were always going to aim to do that with this car. Man City concede defeat in Marc Cucurella pursuit? With these regulations, the challenge was always going to be generating downforce high up, it does look like we are running low. Not only for Silverstone, but going forward as well.". News. To be honest, it wouldnt be anywhere near the frustration that wed be feeling if we brought a load of parts and we felt like weve gone backwards, said Shovlin. There are accompanying revisions throughout the car revised front wing profiles, floor fences, halos, diffusers, bodywork around the rear suspension, and cooling louvers. F1 2022 heads to Silverstone for the big event of the motorsport summer. But Alpine's Fernando Alonso thinks those differences will be short lived. 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg discusses the rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate George Russell. As a result, multiple teams have brought their version of improvements for the race this weekend. Ferrari has introduced a new engine cover, a sidepod undercut revision, modified rear view mirrors, and an outboard stay redesign in line with the new engine cover. Former Mercedes driver and world champion Nico Rosberg, meanwhile, has predicted there is "no way" Mercedes can compete with Red Bull and Ferrari at the British GP, where Max Verstappen is looking to extend his 46-point title lead. He added that upgrades will continue to come to the car as the season progresses as team principal Toto Wolff said there is still much work to do to get Mercedes battling Red Bull and Ferrari for the remainder of the year. But if we have, it should be at least a fun race for us if we can keep up with the Red Bulls and the Ferraris for once.. But I would say that the route that we want to take now is becoming increasingly clear. 8 Lewis Hamilton4 Michael Schumacher3 Ayrton Senna2 Jenson Button, Mika Hakkinen, Damon Hill, Nelson Piquet, Sebastian Vettel, Jacques Villeneuve#F1 pic.twitter.com/YL8OryST9X. Williams arguably had one of the more striking updates as Alex Albon found pace with it instantly and started challenging midfield teams. And speaking in Mercedes' post-Canada debrief, technical director Mike Elliott confirmed the eight-time constructors' champions were bringing updates next weekend, although he was still cautious about their speed. Home News Mercedes promise far, far more upgrades to come, Date published: July 28 2022 2022 F1 British GP FP1 and FP2: What did we learn. "Let's see what our rivals will bring to Bahrain. The teams have at least one second left in their pockets.". At other times in the session it looked like we were closer to the front. For Red Bull, the reshaped engine cover is the most obvious change and was visible when the car first made an appearance on the track. US Open 2022: Will Djokovic & Kyrgios miss the US Open? Transfer Centre LIVE! And we dont know whether we can fight for second in the championship, were not ruling out fighting for first even though it feels increasingly like a long shot. It just helps us develop the car, but also get the most out of it in any weekend., Shovlin says that the team can finally get the best out of the car. Some tracks like Budapest will cause us issues and we need to make sure we are really there or thereabouts to make sure we dont have a number of other teams between ourselves and Ferrari and Red Bull. We changed concept in Barcelona perhaps in terms of the way the car was working to try and solve some of that bouncing. The initial impressions point to an improvement but the proof is in the pudding as we wait for the upgraded car to run its first F1 race. A return to a normal track at fast and smooth Silverstone has coincided with the introduction of another set of updates to the car, and as the team had hoped the two factors appear to have worked together to put the car in a more competitive window. 2022 F1 British GP: Preview and Predictions. Updates and the smooth Silverstone asphalt have given Mercedes renewed hope. "We would be happy if we could achieve 70 percent of what is coming from Mercedes," a Red Bull source said. Alpine is another team in the paddock with a significant upgrade on the car. We were just looking at how we set the car up and some option parts around that, and it looked like weve made a bit of a step forward this morning. The British GP is the home race of multiple F1 teams on the grid. With next years car at the moment were at the concept stage, where youre looking at the big changes, the things that youre locked into from the first running of the car for the whole year, really. Indeed in dry FP2 session at Silverstone on Friday Hamilton was an encouraging second fastest, just 0.163sec off Carlos Sainz. But, you know, in terms of the concept of the car, weve actually changed our car an awful lot since it first ran, its behaving very, very differently to when it first ran.

Real Madrid to rival Man United for Fabian Ruiz? We didnt get to see how qualifying would have unfolded in dry conditions, but there were more signs of promise in the wet with Russell taking third in Q1 and Hamilton second in Q2. Its exactly what we were seeing in Barcelona. Mercedes promise far, far more upgrades to come, Toto Wolff said there is still much work to do. Those comments, however, preceded a podium finish for Hamilton and fourth place for George Russell, raising expectations for more pace at a bumper British GP at Silverstone, where the Silver Arrows typically flourish. In the first few races, we were literally just sort of fighting to survive, Shovlin admitted. And the drivers were fighting to survive with a car that was incredibly difficult to work with. Not much from the Woking-based squad due to the cost cap, as Andreas Seidl had alluded to earlier. "We will be trying to push the car forward, trying to get some pace from the package we've got as well as the new bits we are going to add to it. "They're still too far away from performance of Ferrari and Red Bull. I think this update is the first proper update along the line that we started to create in Barcelona, this is the first one that we brought to the track, and its encouraging to see that its worked., Mercedes was optimistic about qualifying and then the rain fell.

But it's not Barcelona. F1 "After four or five races there will be one or two teams that win all the races and the rest of us will copy what they have," said the Spaniard. And in previous years weve won championships by designing a car that works well over the average track. But were not where we want to be with that at the moment.. They're still miles away.". For Mercedes, the 2022 F1 British GP means a significant round of upgrades on the car. The team has brought an all-new sidepod and floor. But its certainly a car that we can start to work with.. Mercedes could be preparing to unleash the most radical technical innovation seen so far on any of the ten all-new Formula 1 cars for 2022. The benefits? MX23RW : Sunday, July 31 00:50:05| >> :120:5434:5434: ID:480201:1false2false3false:QQ:: from db desktop :LenBod:collect3673: Click here for more stories about Fernando Alonso, Click here for more stories about Mercedes.

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