Mercedes say that McLaren\u2019s remarkable mid-season F1 turnaround will act as a \u201cuseful guide\u201d for their own development for 2024.\u00a0
A series of upgrades over the summer months have transformed McLaren’s 2023 challenger from being one of the slowest cars on the grid to the second-quickest at the Japanese Grand Prix.
But Mercedes are more intrigued by how McLaren’s car is performing on track, rather than simply what it looks like.“McLaren were certainly ahead of us in the last race, with us ahead the race before. On average over the last four or five, we’ve been there or there abouts with them,” Mercedes technical director James Allison told Sky.
“But actually, that isn’t most of our focus. It’s more that when you see any of the cars on the grid and you see the type of corners they are strong in, the type of corners they are weak in, you can sort of reverse-engineer a bit from that, what are the sort of characteristics that will prosper over a season as a whole.
“So that’s a sort of useful guide to let you know whether you are barking up the right tree or the wrong tree.”Asked how quickly he expects the field to close up, Allison replied: “If you take start of this new generation of cars, 22, second year of the cost cap, but start of the new generation of cars and you look at the field spread in the opening races, it was about double what the field spread is now.
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