Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes team have produced back-to-back results in back-to-back races after making some upgrades in their cars. Meanwhile, they have recently announced the revamp of their facility. Despite spending plenty of money, Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff is confident of making some changes next year.
As per reports, Mercedes will spend nearly $89 million revamping their facility and turning it into a Silicon Valley-style campus. The revamp will introduce a lot of changes. Notably, Mercedes are currently maintaining a $135 million budget cap. However, they are still pretty slow compared to Red Bull and Max Verstappen.
After the Canadian GP, Hamilton said, “We struggle in the lower-speed corners particularly, and that’s really where I was losing to Fernando [Alonso] and to Max [Verstappen] – just on traction out of Turn 2, out of pretty much every corner… We’ve got a lot of work to do just to add rear downforce to the car and a little bit more efficiency. But we’re chipping away.”
Speaking about the budget cap, Wolff said, “We stayed below that line all year last year, and we’ve stayed below that line this year. Considering a normal development switch for next year.” He further talked about making some changes, as he said, “There are going to be some fundamental design changes for next year, but it’s not that we’re building stuff… It’s more what are we simulating – and that is not measured in money.”
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