Also Mercedes, as well as Ferrari, take advantage of the opportunity of the filming day to take to the track with your single-seater. Self Ferrari filmed at the Monza national racetrack, Mercedes made a stop at Paul Ricard to take advantage of 100 km granted by the FIA; the end was to try what's new in W13 before the Sunday appointment a Barcelona.
Direction Barcelona
The team of Brackley bet everything on Sunday's race for relaunch its complicated start to the season, and does so by bringing a significant package of updates; the hope is that it will be digested by the W13 to make his technicians sleep again, and his pilots hungry. Just to get a preview of theefficiency of new developments, the star team took advantage of the filming day granted by FIA for commercial shooting. The goal was to film the new 'zero bellies' car for the sponsors – as the previous filming day had taken place with the version with bellies - but most of all correlate data between simulator and asphalt to get an idea of the work done in the factory.
100 kilometers for the verdict?
Mercedes, therefore, took to the track in the Le Castellet circuit with George Russell driving a newly updated W13, fitted with Pirelli demo tyres. Situation of fact similar to that seen in the case of Ferrari, con two differences: the track, and the end, as if Mercedes fights for get back up the slope, Ferrari fights for the title. The silver team engineers they will have got an initial idea in the 100 kilometers traveled about the goodness of the news; but updates will suffice for relaunch towards the fight at the top, or we will see the Brackley team look ahead by abandoning the current project? The answer may be closer than it seems, and it will probably be the hot asphalt of the city that speaks for itself Catalonia.
SOURCE: Motorsport.com Italy
