{"id":2189710,"date":"2026-10-09T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2189710"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:46:19","slug":"mercedes-reveals-early-findings-from-singapore-split-f1-car-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2189710","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes reveals early findings from Singapore split F1 car experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<article>\n<header id=\"lbs-article\" class=\"article header article-header section layout layout--article-header\">\n<div class=\"col headline\">\n<div>\n<h1>Mercedes reveals early findings from Singapore split F1 car experiment<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"summary body\">\n<p>Mercedes has shared its early learnings from its unique Singapore experiment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section two-column\">\n<div class=\"col article-info\">\n<div>\n<address> Lewis Larkam <\/address>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><time datetime=\"2026-10-09T12:46:19+01:00\">09 Oct 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col article-actions\">\n<div class=\"block block-better-social-sharing-buttons block-social-sharing-buttons-block\">\n<div class=\"social-sharing-buttons\"><span class=\"ssb-title\"> Share<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"lbs-content\" class=\"content wide-two-column-sticky section layout layout--wide-two-column-sticky\">\n<div class=\"col first-column\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Kimi Antonelli is running the new-spec Mercedes<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block block-preferred-source\">\n<aside>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div>  Prefer Crash.Net on Google <\/div>\n<div> See our stories more often<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"button\">  Add <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>Mercedes has revealed its early findings from running a back-to-back comparison with its Formula 1 car at the Singapore Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George Russell topped the timesheets in the only practice session in Singapore using Mercedes\u2019 older-spec, while team-mate and championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli was seventh and 1.3 seconds slower in the upgraded W17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is little comparison that can be drawn from the pure lap times, however, given the pair used different tyres (Russell soft and Antonelli medium), while Antonelli ran down an escape-road during his final push lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Mercedes has already collected some valuable data to cross-reference between the old and new specification aerodynamic package as it bids to understand whether the major upgrade it debuted at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia was a success or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Russell was fastest in the old Mercedes in practice<\/div>\n<div class=\"source\"> \u00a9\u00a0XPB Images<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;The complication is that we&#8217;ve brought a big upgrade to Sepang, and Sepang is so tricky and a little bit of an outlier in terms of the temperatures that we&#8217;ve seen on Friday and Saturday,\u201d Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with the tarmac being quite open, we kind of didn&#8217;t know whether the upgrade wasn&#8217;t working as we thought, or whether it was influenced, indeed, by the track conditions. That&#8217;s why we decided to go to Singapore, have two different spec of cars, and see what it&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to do, well knowing that Singapore is an outlier of a track too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve done that exercise in FP1. There is a pattern, but most importantly is to really dissect what&#8217;s working and what not on the old and the new spec, and then finding a way forward in picking the best bits and seeing where the development direction needs to get us in order to extract the optimum lap time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, having said that, obviously running two different cars is not always ideal but it&#8217;s a compromise we just need to take. So we have two test pilots at the moment. We need to take in order to assure that we&#8217;re doing the right thing for next year as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff said the early \u201cpattern\u201d suggests that the latest version of the Mercedes is trickier to drive, though he stressed that does not mean it does not have more outright performance potential than its predecessor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"ins-related_content dsp-related_content_in_article\">\n<h2>Read Also<\/h2>\n<div class=\"related-content-in-body js-view-dom-id-c9011284306fd2c6fb30a3d4965a18d87dc0eeaa01d676b0fdd1d2b24e4f575b\">\n<div class=\"item-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>Mercedes offers fresh judgement on upgrade after Singapore GP qualifying<\/li>\n<li>Max Verstappen edges two Ferraris to Singapore GP pole<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Toto Wolff shared Mercedes&#8217; early findings in Singapore<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is a similar pattern that the new car seems to be a little bit more trickier to drive, not saying it&#8217;s necessarily slower because there will be goodness in it, but maybe we have haven&#8217;t just found a way of putting it all together and tuning it,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older car is a bit stable, grippy, but that is really just one data point, that is one free practice session. 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class=\"sections\"> F1  News <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Max Verstappen edges two Ferraris to Singapore GP pole<\/p>\n<div class=\"card-info\">\n<div class=\"time\" data-timestamp=\"1791642923\"> 2h ago<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1444005_hires.jpg?height=270&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 270w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1444005_hires.jpg?height=180&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 180w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1444005_hires.jpg?height=90&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 90w\" sizes=\"100px\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"card card_default\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"links\">\n<div class=\"sections\"> F1  News <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Why Norris avoided a penalty for crashing into Piastri at Singapore GP<\/p>\n<div class=\"card-info\">\n<div class=\"time\" data-timestamp=\"1791640116\"> 3h ago<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443710_hires.jpg?height=270&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 270w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443710_hires.jpg?height=180&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 180w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443710_hires.jpg?height=90&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 90w\" sizes=\"100px\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"card card_default\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"links\">\n<div class=\"sections\"> F1  News <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kim Kardashian makes surprise F1 Singapore GP appearance to cheer on Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n<div class=\"card-info\">\n<div class=\"time\" data-timestamp=\"1791637044\"> 3h ago<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1414051_hires.jpg?height=270&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 270w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1414051_hires.jpg?height=180&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 180w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1414051_hires.jpg?height=90&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 90w\" sizes=\"100px\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"card card_default\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"links\">\n<div class=\"sections\"> F1  News <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Martin Brundle delivers verdict on McLaren&#8217;s Singapore GP clash<\/p>\n<div class=\"card-info\">\n<div class=\"time\" data-timestamp=\"1791635529\"> 4h ago<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443876_hires.jpg?height=270&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 270w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443876_hires.jpg?height=180&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 180w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443876_hires.jpg?height=90&amp;format=webp&amp;aspect_ratio=1:1 90w\" sizes=\"100px\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"summary body\">\n<p>Mercedes has shared its early learnings from its unique Singapore experiment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>Mercedes has revealed its early findings from running a back-to-back comparison with its Formula 1 car at the Singapore Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George Russell topped the timesheets in the only practice session in Singapore using Mercedes\u2019 older-spec, while team-mate and championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli was seventh and 1.3 seconds slower in the upgraded W17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is little comparison that can be drawn from the pure lap times, however, given the pair used different tyres (Russell soft and Antonelli medium), while Antonelli ran down an escape-road during his final push lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Mercedes has already collected some valuable data to cross-reference between the old and new specification aerodynamic package as it bids to understand whether the major upgrade it debuted at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia was a success or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Russell was fastest in the old Mercedes in practice<\/div>\n<div class=\"source\"> \u00a9\u00a0XPB Images<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;The complication is that we&#8217;ve brought a big upgrade to Sepang, and Sepang is so tricky and a little bit of an outlier in terms of the temperatures that we&#8217;ve seen on Friday and Saturday,\u201d Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with the tarmac being quite open, we kind of didn&#8217;t know whether the upgrade wasn&#8217;t working as we thought, or whether it was influenced, indeed, by the track conditions. That&#8217;s why we decided to go to Singapore, have two different spec of cars, and see what it&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to do, well knowing that Singapore is an outlier of a track too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve done that exercise in FP1. There is a pattern, but most importantly is to really dissect what&#8217;s working and what not on the old and the new spec, and then finding a way forward in picking the best bits and seeing where the development direction needs to get us in order to extract the optimum lap time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, having said that, obviously running two different cars is not always ideal but it&#8217;s a compromise we just need to take. So we have two test pilots at the moment. We need to take in order to assure that we&#8217;re doing the right thing for next year as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff said the early \u201cpattern\u201d suggests that the latest version of the Mercedes is trickier to drive, though he stressed that does not mean it does not have more outright performance potential than its predecessor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"ins-related_content dsp-related_content_in_article\">\n<h2>Read Also<\/h2>\n<div class=\"related-content-in-body js-view-dom-id-c9011284306fd2c6fb30a3d4965a18d87dc0eeaa01d676b0fdd1d2b24e4f575b\">\n<div class=\"item-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>Mercedes offers fresh judgement on upgrade after Singapore GP qualifying<\/li>\n<li>Max Verstappen edges two Ferraris to Singapore GP pole<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Toto Wolff shared Mercedes&#8217; early findings in Singapore<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is a similar pattern that the new car seems to be a little bit more trickier to drive, not saying it&#8217;s necessarily slower because there will be goodness in it, but maybe we have haven&#8217;t just found a way of putting it all together and tuning it,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older car is a bit stable, grippy, but that is really just one data point, that is one free practice session. It will be needing more time to really come to more conclusive information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff admitted it is \u201cvery\u201d important that Mercedes finds a way forward with the upgrade as attention starts to turn towards development for the 2027 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve put a few months into the car,\u201d he said. \u201cClearly pointing in a direction that we we think is advantageous and maybe we just need to calibrate it a little bit in order to find the right way forward for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block block-campaign-monitor\">\n<h2>Sign up for the Crash F1 Newsletter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"extra-info js-form-wrapper form-wrapper\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-legal\" id=\"edit-legal--2\">\n<p>Your information will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>Mercedes has revealed its early findings from running a back-to-back comparison with its Formula 1 car at the Singapore Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George Russell topped the timesheets in the only practice session in Singapore using Mercedes\u2019 older-spec, while team-mate and championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli was seventh and 1.3 seconds slower in the upgraded W17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is little comparison that can be drawn from the pure lap times, however, given the pair used different tyres (Russell soft and Antonelli medium), while Antonelli ran down an escape-road during his final push lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Mercedes has already collected some valuable data to cross-reference between the old and new specification aerodynamic package as it bids to understand whether the major upgrade it debuted at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia was a success or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443247_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Russell was fastest in the old Mercedes in practice<\/div>\n<div class=\"source\"> \u00a9\u00a0XPB Images<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;The complication is that we&#8217;ve brought a big upgrade to Sepang, and Sepang is so tricky and a little bit of an outlier in terms of the temperatures that we&#8217;ve seen on Friday and Saturday,\u201d Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with the tarmac being quite open, we kind of didn&#8217;t know whether the upgrade wasn&#8217;t working as we thought, or whether it was influenced, indeed, by the track conditions. That&#8217;s why we decided to go to Singapore, have two different spec of cars, and see what it&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to do, well knowing that Singapore is an outlier of a track too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve done that exercise in FP1. There is a pattern, but most importantly is to really dissect what&#8217;s working and what not on the old and the new spec, and then finding a way forward in picking the best bits and seeing where the development direction needs to get us in order to extract the optimum lap time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, having said that, obviously running two different cars is not always ideal but it&#8217;s a compromise we just need to take. So we have two test pilots at the moment. We need to take in order to assure that we&#8217;re doing the right thing for next year as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff said the early \u201cpattern\u201d suggests that the latest version of the Mercedes is trickier to drive, though he stressed that does not mean it does not have more outright performance potential than its predecessor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"ins-related_content dsp-related_content_in_article\">\n<h2>Read Also<\/h2>\n<div class=\"related-content-in-body js-view-dom-id-c9011284306fd2c6fb30a3d4965a18d87dc0eeaa01d676b0fdd1d2b24e4f575b\">\n<div class=\"item-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>Mercedes offers fresh judgement on upgrade after Singapore GP qualifying<\/li>\n<li>Max Verstappen edges two Ferraris to Singapore GP pole<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure> <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1920&amp;format=webp 1920w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1800&amp;format=webp 1800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;format=webp 1600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1500&amp;format=webp 1500w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=webp 1200w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=900&amp;format=webp 900w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=800&amp;format=webp 800w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=600&amp;format=webp 600w,https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443286_hires.jpg?width=400&amp;format=webp 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><figcaption>\n<div>Toto Wolff shared Mercedes&#8217; early findings in Singapore<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is a similar pattern that the new car seems to be a little bit more trickier to drive, not saying it&#8217;s necessarily slower because there will be goodness in it, but maybe we have haven&#8217;t just found a way of putting it all together and tuning it,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older car is a bit stable, grippy, but that is really just one data point, that is one free practice session. It will be needing more time to really come to more conclusive information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff admitted it is \u201cvery\u201d important that Mercedes finds a way forward with the upgrade as attention starts to turn towards development for the 2027 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve put a few months into the car,\u201d he said. \u201cClearly pointing in a direction that we we think is advantageous and maybe we just need to calibrate it a little bit in order to find the right way forward for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-block\">\n<div class=\"mpu-title\"><span>Article continues below<\/span><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"block block-campaign-monitor\">\n<h2>Sign up for the Crash F1 Newsletter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"extra-info js-form-wrapper form-wrapper\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-legal\" id=\"edit-legal--2\">\n<p>Your information will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;http:\/\/crash.net\/f1\/news\/1106808\/1\/mercedes-reveals-early-findings-singapore-split-f1-car-experiment&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.crash.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/xpb_1443180_hires.jpg?width=1600&amp;aspect_ratio=16:9&#8243;] Mercedes reveals early findings from Singapore split F1 car experiment Mercedes has shared its early learnings from its unique Singapore experiment. 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