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Originally Posted by M5Rick
Merc no doubt have a dozen or more of these PU blocks sitting around on wooden shelves at Brackley also to supply those other teams.
The Merc ones would be seperate probably from the customer ones.
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That's for sure , Mercedes won't share their top-secrets !
On the other hand : The 2021 HONDA PU can handle extreme high temps very well.
The Mercedes PU mistakes began at Silverstone .
It was there for the first time where Mercedes was using the air sensor trick , to get more warp-speed power .
Shortly after Silverstone , the other teams noticed via GPS data that the Merc ran suddenly 20 kph faster on the straights !
Even stronger was the fact that the Merc's run faster without DRS than the other cars with DRS !
BOT is/was still the Mercedes test mule , and it 'seems to work during the QF sessions in combination with the 'Turbo-Upgrade !
That's why BOT can pull the pole with the full power mappings , but during the race over a longer period of time , it's there where it goes completely wrong for the Mercedes PU !..
And suddenly Micro Cracks appeared in the Mercedes PU !!!
And lots of Mercedes had to be replaced .
Let us not forget that BOT runs with his 6th PU !
Mercedes threw it in , in the middle of the season to beat MAX , because MAX was leading strong in the WDC and HAM was whining to get more power !
But Mercedes didn't had the necessary time to test it during the pace of a whole race pace and the negative impact of hotter PU temps .
I said this before : Mercedes is playing Russian Roulette , with only one (1) bullet in the chamber !