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Mercedes F1 Provide a Rare Update on the Progress and Improvements of Their 2020 Engine

Published 02/04/2020, 9:54 PM EST

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Mercedes’ superior powertrains chief, Andy Cowell, has proposed there have been little beasts in the framework as the group builds up their 2020 force unit. Offering for a seventh back to back World Championship twofold this season, Mercedes F1 is caught up with assembling the last addresses what they will trust is another effective year.

Mercedes F1 is making enhancements for their motor. It has not come without its challenges as per Cowell, who has given an off-season update on the Silver Arrows.

In a video clip, Mercedes engine boss Andy Cowell said that the producer has gained ground yet was “fighting a few little issues as ever“. While the accompanying tweet noted, “if you don’t have setbacks, you’re not trying hard enough“.

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Mercedes F1 provides some inside news

Mercedes F1 uncovered on January 28th that the new force unit had just been run in the W11 skeleton.

Lots going on in Brixworth. Lots of improvements across the whole power unit, on the ERS side, on the internal combustion engine side,” said Cowell.

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As ever fighting a few little issues as we pull everything together. So lots of work going into building the right spec, getting it long-runned. Then providing power units to the teams so that they can fire up their cars. I think you’ve spotted one that’s fired up already!

And then getting the hardware ready to go track testing. Car launch on February 14th, with a red rose. Then off to Barcelona with three cars hopefully pounding round the track. Just six days of track testing then before we’re off to Melbourne.”

Cowell said that Mercedes is now preparing the race motors required by its three groups and six vehicles toward the beginning of the period.

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And the race pool, a huge number of those parts already made, assemblies going together. The challenge of getting everything to the other side of the world. So a busy time, chasing bits of performance. Getting the reliability there, getting the huge amount of hardware together, and getting it to the other side of the world.”

Last season Lewis Hamilton was only one of two drivers (along with Haas’s Romain Grosjean) not to exceed his allowance of power unit elements as he roared to his sixth world championship.

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Abhay Aggarwal is sports analyst at EssentiallySports. Having joined ES in early 2020, he has over 300 NASCAR, Formula 1, and Tennis articles to his name. Abhay has been an avid motorsports fan for over a decade, and he even attended the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in 2011.
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