Will the Mercedes upgrade deliver?

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I get the sense you think this is a crucial weekend for George Russell. I just think he'll go well there.

[00:00:05]No, look.

[00:00:06]>> he doesn't? It's not over if he doesn't.

[00:00:08]You know, there's a lot more races to come. But the the reason I say that is I think, and I'm trying to predict the future here, I just said you shouldn't.

[00:00:16]>> [laughter] >> But I think their upgrades that they'll bring will see them relatively stronger to the rest than they were in Miami. Is there a chance though that these upgrades for Mercedes don't deliver? Cuz Obviously.

[00:00:30]>> Yes. Ferrari didn't. They don't know these cars at all well. And actually, if you look at the last couple of seasons, Mercedes upgrades haven't delivered instant lap time often. They've brought them and then they've had to fiddle and play with them a little bit for a couple races. I remember talking with the Mercedes technical team, and I was surprised at how few people they had in their arrow performance group, which is all about correlation. And that was because they had great correlation, right? So now they're trying to fix that, and it doesn't correlate.

[00:01:03]They've increased their APG group significantly. Don't forget this is the the first major package that they've brought.

[00:01:10]So they haven't been through a full correlation cycle yet. All right. So >> a surprise.

[00:01:16]Could be a surprise.