Mercedes' technical director James Allison has offered a peak behind-the-curtain on their new car for the 2020 Formula 1 season, suggesting it is far more than just an evolution of its title-winning predecessor. In a video released by Mercedes on Sunday, Allison said the team decided to 'make a car that was aggressive' in the new W11, instead of taking the 'conservative approach' of merely improving 2019's W10. 'The temptation for us was just to keep polishing [the W10] — after all it finished the season really strongly and it was developing very fast all the way through the year, so there was still lots of opportunity to make that one quicker,' he said. 'That conservative approach...
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