In the various statements made by the team principals during the Formula 1 winter tests, it is always difficult among the simple ones pretacticthose made to put pressure on opponents and those substantially honest, which reflect the state of the art. What emerged yesterday from the Corriere della Sera signed by Giorgio Terruzzi, or one Mercedes ready to bring to the track in the Bahrain tests scheduled from tomorrow, a heavily revised W13 described “almost completely devoid of sides ” with “Earnings already legendary” on the simulator, it quickly traveled around the world and became the main topic of discussion among fans and enthusiasts. In this scenario, one of the statements made can be re-read afterwards, a Skyfrom Mattia Binotto on the sidelines of the tests in Barcelona ten days ago: “I think when we get there in Bahrain, Mercedes will be two or three months ahead of the others “. This type of temporal quantification – not in tenths or seconds, but in months – is typical of an evaluation not of lap time, but of blocks of updates and suggested that Ferrari considered the Silver Arrows to be at a level of development. higher than the opponents.
A leaner W13, with bellies reduced to the bare minimum, a decidedly important evolutionary step visible to the naked eye. Mercedes has neither confirmed nor denied, allowing the Germans to Auto, Motor und Sport just a whisper: “The biggest updates are those that cannot be revealed publicly“. The rival teams would have circulated the rumors about the team headed by Toto Wolff, “At Red Bull they say: we would be happy if we reached 70% of what Mercedes will bring, their package should be huge “, the German publication reported, while reporter Tom Clarkson explained to the podcast F1 Nation: “Ferrari believes Mercedes will show up with a car B, kind of like they did in 2019 when they went through the first part of testing with a simple car and then completely revised for the second session.“. In fact, the team of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell would not be new to this approach in testing, which has already happened on two occasions in the past, in 2017 and 2019, put in place to take advantage of extra days to work on the first update package with which the championship will start. And that Mercedes could be ahead of their rivals could already be assumed at the time of fire-updone last December 23 And in great advance compared to rivals, just think that the Ferrari one dates back to February 3, almost a month and a half later. The wait is over and from tomorrow it will be possible to evaluate the work done by the Silver Arrows and discover the reactions of the opponents and the Federation, which recently had leaked that it had noticed in the 3D models “developments that do not exactly adhere to the spirit of the regulation ”.
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