In the meantime, Lewis Hamilton was back on the podium last weekend in Austria, although team boss Toto Wolff admits he was “not fast enough to really attack right at the front”. However, he admits that Mercedes has “got porpoising under control now”, with team technical director Mike Elliot announcing that car updates will now flow steadily at each grand prix. “We would really like to be there in the fight that Ferrari and Red Bull are having at the front,” confirmed Wolff. And the next race, at the silky smooth Paul Ricard circuit next weekend, could suit the Mercedes package even more than Austria.

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