Less than a week until testing starts, and already F1 teams want more time to gather data...
Mercedes worried three days of testing won’t be enough to identify underlying issuesWith only three days of pre-season testing available before the opening race in Bahrain, Mike Elliott admits he’s worried that won’t be enough time to “really start seeing” any potential issues.
Claiming just a solitary win on their way to a distant third in the Constructors’ Championship, this season Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will line up on the Bahrain grid with Mercedes not holding either of the two titles. “We never really got on top of the car balance last year,” he said. “All the normal work we do at the beginning of the season didn’t happen because of the problems we were trying to rectify.“The first is in reliability. If we are not reliable in the test, then we will have very limited mileage to learn. We also won’t be able to measure the car’s absolute reliability too much, because over three days you are not going to get huge amounts of running.
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