Last year Mercedes suffered throughout the season with an unruly car in the slow corners, high tyre degradations, inconsistent peformance across sessions, and what was more troubling, the team could not pinpoint the causes to their increase in performance, nor find the root causes behind their dips and outright loss of speed. The W16 may just be the answer to the questions that Mercedes was unable to find last year, and going back to 2022 as well.
