It's always hard to have a clear picture of competitiveness at pre-season testing - and even more so with only three days of data available. The changes and direction we're going has enabled me to start to explore that more and have more confidence in pushing closer to the limit, but I am still not able to get to the limit so we still have to make some more changes. The new parts will be fitted only to Lando Norris' car in Austria, before team-mate Oscar Piastri receives them at Silverstone. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted that the team are still playing catch-up after Red Bull stormed to last season's Constructors' Championship.

Ultimately, there are fundamental changes that have to change for next year, and I have been asking for it for over a year, and I expect to have that in the future which will definitely help." A big upgrade for McLaren When you are so far ahead, 100 points ahead, you don't really need to do a lot of development on your car so you can start earlier on your next car. And with the budget cap that means spending that year's money on next year's car. He added: "We weren't talking about that when he was winning his championships, right? So I don't think we should now." Lewis Hamilton is currently fourth in the 2023 drivers' championship Hamilton 'still not able to go to the limit' The houndstooth pattern is a nod to my British heritage, which I’m really proud of. When you look closer at the print, you’ll see it’s been created using the number that has defined my journey: 44. This pattern symbolizes how our unique identities can collectively define moments and movements that are greater than us.It's our first upgrade of the season, really, for performance. The upgrade in Baku was not a performance deliverer. This is the updated version of what we had there. I have confidence it's a decent step." We didn't have the smoothest winter test in Bahrain," admitted Wolff. "We had some reliability problems and struggled with the car set-up on day two. It would be cool to see in the next period if we don't have huge bands of time when one team is ahead because we want to see better racing." Why is Jonathan Pie so angry about everything?! The political journalist is let loose on the public when he gets a radio phone-in show He said: "In my 17 years of being here, even before I got here, you would see periods of dominance and it continues to happen.

McLaren said before the season even started they had missed their development targets with this year's car and would have a difficult start to the campaign.

But the key objective was to learn about the car, and we did lots of learning. We made good progress on the final day, which gave us directions to work on in the short period between the test and this weekend's race. Hamilton said upgrades to his Mercedes in recent races were "a step in the right direction" and that the car was "starting to feel like a real racing car".

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Their first upgrade was at the fourth race of the season, and Austria marks the start of a three-step development to be introduced over the next three. Mercedes have more new parts coming for the British Grand Prix next weekend, but at the Red Bull Ring this weekend a lot of attention will be on McLaren, who are introducing what their team boss Andrea Stella has called a "milestone" development. Hamilton said such a cycle of dominance was something he enjoyed with Mercedes from 2014-2020, and emphasised his comments were "not aimed at one person".This was all meant to come for Silverstone, so the fact we have some of it, not even all of it, is already going to be a good step forward. Something has got to change because when we were winning championships, we could start earlier than everyone else. If everyone had a time [to start on the next car], no-one has a head start and then it's a real race," he said. Of course exciting ones as well, but not a lot of time to look into things and assess them and keep everything under control. It is going to be tough, but we still think it's the best thing to do. I am looking forward to it. You have to have confidence that when you carry 150-180mph into a corner, the car will be with you and support you through that.