Oct 25 (Reuters) - Mercedes expect their upgraded car to perform strongly in the final four races of the Formula One season despite the blow of having Lewis Hamilton disqualified from second place in Texas last Sunday.
Allison said that feeling would soon be replaced by "a sunny optimism of knowing that the car looked bright on this upgrade package and we've got four more races to show what we can do with it".
Allison said Austin, despite the skid plate problem, had actually been a "cast-iron vote of confidence in favour of what we put on the car".
When we had done our setup we checked the plank and everything all looked fine, untouched after the FP1 running.
We were illegal so clearly we should have had our car set a little bit higher up to give ourselves a little bit more margin."
Persons:
Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton, James Allison, Austin debrief, Allison, we've, George Russell, we'll, Austin, Alan Baldwin, Clare Fallon
Organizations:
Thomson
Locations:
Texas, Mexico, Brazil, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, London