Last weekend, Red Bull achieved a double victory with Max Verstappen’s brilliant win and his teammate Sergio Perez securing second place. However, the results were much more mixed for Mercedes.<\/p>\n
If former Williams driver George Russell managed to secure a solid fourth place with a more fragile than usual car, Lewis Hamilton had to settle for thirteenth place after being stuck behind Pierre Gasly for the entire second part of the race.<\/p>\n
The Head of Trackside Engineering at Mercedes, Andrew Shovlin, explained that these results were closely related to the race conditions. Throughout the entire weekend, we had a car with tires struggling to reach the appropriate temperature, Shovlin lamented in a Youtube video from the team. Going out with slick tires on a wet track is very demanding, and we need to understand why we’re having these temperature issues.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, George Russell encountered a rare problem during his pit stop in the race. Andrew Shovlin detailed what happened. When we make an adjustment during a pit stop, we use an electronic gun in which we can program the number of laps needed to adjust the wing [\u2026]. The problem we had was that both guns hit the fin of the wing, which is much larger today, causing the guns to reset. Shovlin revealed.<\/p>\n