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Mercedes 'looking at solutions' to change zero sidepod design

Mercedes has kept its faith in the unique zero sidepod design it introduced last year, but team boss Toto Wolff says the Brackley squad will eventually implement updates on its W14 that could change the innovative concept. The aerodynamic and porpoising issues that undermined Mercedes' 2022 campaign have been well chronicled. Early on, it was often suggested that its car's chronic bouncing bronco nature was rooted in the W13's narrow sidepod concept. In reality, there was no single design element responsible for the machine's erratic behavior, while its innovative sidepods were not "fundamentally" the reason behind the car's underperformance for most of the year, which is why...
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