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Mercedes hope for car updates for Austria
The Silver Arrows head into the new season as favourites, and technical director James Allison says the team are aiming to provide Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas with an upgraded car in Austria, compared to what looked to be fastest at pre-season testing back in February.
"We haven't yet had a single race but actually quite a lot of time has passed since we launched this car," Allison said in a Petronas social media video. "If you imagine where the launch car was and the car that would have gone to Australia, that was frozen around about Christmas. So there was the whole of January, February, March, all making the car quicker in the wind tunnel and also the design compartments.
"And so we've got quite a lot of ideas about how to make it quicker, and quite a lot of those ideas were already in train and through the design office before we shut down nine weeks ago.
"So our challenge now is to ensure that quarter of a year of development can get off the drawing boards and onto the car as swiftly as possible. We hope to have a chunk of that for the first race in Austria, and the season that follows will of course take as much as the development as fast as we can get it onto the car in turn."
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