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How Mercedes went from Friday practice disaster to F1 race winner

July 29, 2024
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How Mercedes went from Friday practice disaster to F1 race winner
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The body language of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell as they climbed up the steps at the back of their engineering trucks after the Belgian Grand Prix’s second practice session said everything.

Heads looking down and shoulders drooped, as they spiralled their way up, it was clear that this had been a bad day for Mercedes.

Having arrived in Belgium with a hint of confidence that Spa-Francorchamps’ track characteristics and an upgraded floor could get the team back in the fight at the front, Mercedes had a harsh reality check on the first day of running.

The W15 was off the pace, more than one second adrift of the benchmark. Worse than that, the car did not feel good at all.

As Hamilton summed up to the media later on: “It was a pretty bad day. I don’t know what to say. Obviously, it’s been feeling great in the past couple of races, and it just felt completely different.”

The biggest issue that Mercedes faced was that there was no really obvious explanation as to what was going on.

In first practice, the team had struggled in the twisty sector two compared to McLaren and Red Bull, so, for FP2, it elected to shift its focus to bias its performance more there.

But all that served to do was to hamper its straightline speed performance in the first and third sectors – with data suggesting it was losing up to 0.9 seconds on the straights alone.

Having had such a nailed-on balance at recent races, which had proved critical to pushes to podiums and wins, Mercedes found itself in a completely different spot where it did not have an obvious explanation for what had gone wrong.

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W15

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W15

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As engineering work continued into the night at its Brackley factory, and the simulator ran on into the early hours, the conclusion was that for the rest of the Belgian GP weekend it needed to go back to what it knew.

That meant first abandoning the new floor it had brought, because it could not be totally sure that there was not some unintended aero or balance consequence that had been introduced from its running.

Plus, Mercedes came to the conclusion that it needed to roll back on some mechanical settings it had opted for to try to extract more from the car and deal better with the high-speed sections at Spa.

As team principal Toto Wolff explained: “On Friday we were not competitive. But there wasn’t a clear direction on what it was. And honestly, I must admit that the overnight work that was done from Friday to Saturday in Brackley, in the sim, and also here on the engineering side was the key.

“We changed a lot for Friday. It was a mechanical non-alignment of what we thought the car would do. So, we remedied it.”

The changes, mechanical set-up tweaks and going back to the old floor, put the W15 back in the happy place it had been at the high-speed Silverstone – but it was only the dry running on Sunday that highlighted that.

And just as the British GP had exposed how the form of the top teams can fluctuate based on the weather, so too did the performance swing between Spa’s Saturday rain and Sunday’s sunshine – where Mercedes had the edge.

George Russell, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, 1st position, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, 2nd position, pour champagne over the Mercedes AMG podium delegate

George Russell, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, 1st position, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, 2nd position, pour champagne over the Mercedes AMG podium delegate

Photo by: Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Images

As Hamilton said after the race: “It was literally night and day different today. On Friday, it was pretty disastrous for both of us and we were really struggling with balance.

“And then today, the car came alive, and I was really surprised to, firstly, get into the lead and then be pulling away from everyone.”

George Russell, who finished first on the road but would later be disqualified for his car being underweight, was at pains to explain that Mercedes’ transformation was simply about the team being able to get its car in the right operating window.

And that is why he has no doubts that the new floor that was abandoned after Friday will be back.

“We’ve got a lot of things we can play around with, and I think we just had it in the wrong window on Friday,” he said.

“We obviously reversed on the floor because we just wanted to rule that out as well. But I’ve got no doubt that in Zandvoort we’ll be returning to the new aero package and getting the car in a slightly different window mechanically.”

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