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Yes essentially, I was trying to imply that its a big advantage of the UK based teams, with respect to the budget cap.
Depends what's contracted really. I'm sure there will be a clause in the workers contracts where the company can dictate what overtime they do up to a certain level. Used to be the same for me when worked at Nissan. Our contracts said that if there was any downtime or requirement or production they could add on up to a hour and a half at the end of the shift (had to be stated by a certain time) or they could get you to work a shift on a Saturday.
Especially hearing the last (few) voices coming out of Brackley who would like the gain of the German engine with a double-digit value, for what in effect wants to be a season of revival also for that part of the Anglo-German team. Last season, only with an intervention to the reliability of the crankshaft on the Phase 3 launched at Spa, Mercedes slowly managed to express a good engine potential, which also allowed it to win the Brazilian GP at Interlagos.
realistically , no one is forced to work overtime if they don’t want to, but a lot of employees if have to put the hours for the company to succeed they will do, a lot of people have personal pride and a bit of a extra bonus in money doesn’t do any harm. It’s not really a big deal now and then, I’m sure the engineers at Mercedes will cope.chrisc90 wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 16:48Depends what's contracted really. I'm sure there will be a clause in the workers contracts where the company can dictate what overtime they do up to a certain level. Used to be the same for me when worked at Nissan. Our contracts said that if there was any downtime or requirement or production they could add on up to a hour and a half at the end of the shift (had to be stated by a certain time) or they could get you to work a shift on a Saturday.
Bit rubbish when your life is dictated by your employer really, but there is also a weekly working hours in the UK, unless you opt out. Legally a employer cant force you to work over 48hours a week, unless the employee opts out.
Then you have stuff like an uninterrupted 11hour break between shifts, an uninterrupted 24 hours without any work each week and an uninterrupted 48 hours without any work each fortnight.
Granted I can imagine a few of those will make staff opt out of such as working hours, but im not sure you can opt out of the rest periods.
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https://www.formu1a.uno/mercedes-w14-si ... d-in-2023/As for the Mercedes livery, no major changes should be expected. The W14 will continue in the grey and black combination of last year, featuring the now well-known red colour from one of the team’s major sponsors – Ineos.
There will be even more carbon on display, which will be part of an important effort to reduce the W14’s weight, which we have previously mentioned in recent weeks.
It is a trend we have already seen with Alfa Romeo’s C43 and will likely be replicated across the field in 2023 to reach meet F1’s minimum weight.
Geez... whats with the doomsday scenarios already... may I remind you the rb18 was under similar crisis after Barcelona.... look how that turn out....Chuckjr wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 03:32That bodes poorly for Merc. If they are still solving problems —according to the driver who’s at the factory talking to the engineers, not the media’s opinion— then yea, that’s not a good sign. I’m confident Merc will have the car ready for testing, the question is if they are STILL trying to figure out what they are doing.
Are you referring to SF-75? RB18 won in Spain, Monaco, Azerbaijan and Canada on the bounce. So not sure what you are referring to. Both Red Bull and Ferrari looked in great shape in testing and early races.cplchanb wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 06:35Geez... whats with the doomsday scenarios already... may I remind you the rb18 was under similar crisis after Barcelona.... look how that turn out....Chuckjr wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 03:32That bodes poorly for Merc. If they are still solving problems —according to the driver who’s at the factory talking to the engineers, not the media’s opinion— then yea, that’s not a good sign. I’m confident Merc will have the car ready for testing, the question is if they are STILL trying to figure out what they are doing.
mendis wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 08:33Are you referring to SF-75? RB18 won in Spain, Monaco, Azerbaijan and Canada on the bounce. So not sure what you are referring to. Both Red Bull and Ferrari looked in great shape in testing and early races.cplchanb wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 06:35Geez... whats with the doomsday scenarios already... may I remind you the rb18 was under similar crisis after Barcelona.... look how that turn out....Chuckjr wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 03:32That bodes poorly for Merc. If they are still solving problems —according to the driver who’s at the factory talking to the engineers, not the media’s opinion— then yea, that’s not a good sign. I’m confident Merc will have the car ready for testing, the question is if they are STILL trying to figure out what they are doing.