Stella: “The discussion with HPP about having more information has been going on for weeks. Because even in testing, we were pretty much going on track, run the car, look at the data, ‘Oh, that’s what we have.’ Good, now we react to what we have. That’s not how you work in Formula 1.
Stella: “Formula 1, what happens on track, you simulate, you know what is happening, you know what you are programming, you know how the car is going to behave. So you also have your plans as to how you evolve it that you have figured out before because you know what you are expecting from the car.
Stella: “So, I have to say, in the three years, well, this was since 2003, but let me say, since we are a customer team, this is the first time that we feel we are on the back foot even when it comes to the ability to predict how the car will behave and the ability to anticipate how we can improve the car.“
Vowles: “No, and I still maintain this. Mercedes are incredibly fair to customer teams. I state this already, we have everything that they have access to.They have just been cleverer than we have, and it’s our job to get on top of it. I’m just a little bit shocked by how much more clever.”
Power struggles.
Andrea Stella is calling for more help from Mercedes HPP as they try to understand their new power unit, while James Vowles has no doubts about fairness
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