Mercedes technical director James Allison says the team's new W11 was designed mainly to ensure the car's steady development throughout the 2020 season. With regulations unchanged for this year, teams have followed a mostly evolutive approach to the design of their 2020 contenders. Mercedes has followed the same path, although the German outfit's new Silver Arrow does feature a few significant changes. "The regulations stayed largely the same for the new year, so for us it was all about trying to make sure that we don’t run out of development steam on a package that worked pretty well for us last year," Allison explains. "If we had continued merely to add flourishes to the...
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