Lewis Hamilton admitted his Mercedes team did not get "the step forward we were hoping for" from their most recent round of car upgrades.
The Silver Arrows hoped to be back at the very front of the grid this year, but so far the 2023 season has been largely forgettable. Mercedes stuck with their 'zeropod' concept for the first few rounds of this campaign but there very quickly came an acceptance that a change of course was required.
In Monaco last weekend, Mercedes turned heads by arriving with a more orthodox aerodynamic concept. Those upgrades were intended to appear at Imola a week earlier but, because of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix's cancellation, they debuted in the principality instead.
