FILE PHOTO: Formula One F1 - Russian Grand Prix - Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Russia - September 28, 2019 Mercedes' team principal Toto Wolff REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovChampions Mercedes were hit by a gearbox problem on the opening day that limited track time.Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton, who spun into the gravel on Saturday and brought out red flags, and Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas both said the car's handling needed improving.
"Pre-season testing is always exciting because you always find the hair in the soup, things that are not good," Wolff told Formula One television. The Austrian defended his team's decision not to carry out a filming day 'shakedown' of the new car before testing started, and said there was no complacency.
"The shakedown if done in the right conditions allows you to understand a little bit more but our failures in the first days were not down to doing or not doing a shakedown," he said."We will crunch the data, try to understand where we performed well and where not, where we had good correlation to our simulations in the tunnel and where not.
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