Mercedes' James Allison has shared plenty of optimism about the W14's upgrades, despite being disqualified in Austin...
Mercedes’ technical director James Allison has opened up on the success of the team’s upgrades despite being disqualified from the US GP.
“You are allowed a certain amount of erosion of that skid block by touching the ground but no more than 1 mm, else if your car is inspected and found to be below that 9 mm then you will have been deemed to running your car too low and you’ll be disqualified. Indeed, that is what happened in our case.
“That gives us great hope for the races that remain. But, the disqualification had everything to do with the setup and the bumpiness of the track, amplified by the fact that it was a sprint weekend.”With Mercedes – as well as Ferrari with the also disqualified Charles Leclerc – having openly admitted to having gotten things wrong when they met with the stewards on Sunday evening, Allison re-iterated the fact the sprint weekend format had resulted in a lack of proper data.
“At a sprint weekend, you are under much more pressure, you have just a solitary hour at the very front of the weekend. In Free Practice 1 you have to get the car ready for the next session, which is qualifying, the next session which is the sprint shootout, the next session which is the sprint race, and then the race itself.
“When we had done our setup we checked the plank and everything all looked fine, untouched after the FP1 running. But the results of the race speak for themselves. We were illegal, so clearly, we should have had our car set a little bit higher up to give ourselves a little bit more margin. It’s of course a mistake, it’s an understandable sort of mistake in a sprint weekend where it’s so much harder to get that stuff right, especially on a bumpy track.
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