The end of 2025 couldn’t come soon enough for Mercedes. Although the team had enjoyed a smattering of good fortune over the 2022-25 period – and victories, no less – this has been comparatively sparse versus its championship-winning heyday. As Mercedes’ key personnel would willingly admit, it entered that generation on the back foot and never really recovered.
Now that ground-effect aerodynamics have been put back on the shelf, Mercedes has reason for optimism. There’s pressure on the team to deliver once more; for months, suggestions have been that the German brand’s High Performance Powertrains division has got the holeshot with the new powertrain regulations – as it had in 2014 at the birth of F1’s turbo-hybrid era. Of course, the pre-season interlude has been rife with rumours of compression ratio tinkering, with Mercedes cited as one of the powertrain manufacturers behind that. For now, it’s merely speculation.
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