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Mercedes technical director James Allison has suggested that they need to prove that Lewis Hamilton’s podium finish in the Australian Grand Prix wasn’t a freak result.
‘Unusual’ circumstances marred the race in Melbourne as Hamilton finished behind Max Verstappen to claim the Silver Arrows’ first podium of the season.
And Allison believes it’s so early to suggest Mercedes have a package capable of challenging Ferrari and Aston Martin just on the back of that result.
He said: “We expected to be in the fight with Ferrari and Aston Martin and pleased to have our noses in front, but we did expect to be there.
“How much of the overall good results of the weekend was track specific, and how much came from things we did? Time will tell.
“We’ll go to some more very different tracks in the next few weeks, and we’ll see whether this was the sort of initial bellwether of a general uptick in our performance which we hope for, or whether it was related to the quite unusual track conditions that we saw this weekend in Melbourne.”
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