Mercedes are reverting to their pre-Imola specification for the Hungarian GP, in a bid to help Kimi Antonelli’s confidence.
Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin has opened up on the changes, explaining: “In a way, it’s always been on the radar.
“One of the inconvenient facts was that that was on the car in Montreal, where we had a very, very good weekend.
“Now, that circuit is very different to some of the recent ones, but if we look over the past three tracks [Red Bull Ring, Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps], high speed performance hasn’t been where it was.
“The drivers talked about lacking entry stability and then just this general sense that they didn’t have the trust in the car that they did earlier in the [season].
“We had other sets of experiments that we were playing with around the time of Montreal and Austria, but we were starting to get to a stage where the next logical thing is [to] wind back on that change and see if we can recover that stability that they are craving.”