Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has not ruled out the possibility that the team may decide to run wider sidepods in a bid to try and improve their fortunes, but he would like to make the “zeropods” work. The new technical regulations have cultivated lots of different concepts from the teams, and one of the most surprising was that pf Mercedes when they showed up to the second pre-season test in Bahrain which virtually no sidepods on the car. It necessitated a different cooling philosophy and left the floor of the car mostly exposed, leaving it vulnerable to extrusion of airflow, which does not help the “porpoising” phenomenon. READ: Schumacher slams Hamilton and Vettel for being...
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