Could Mercedes introduce radical ‘zeropod’ F1 design?

While having no sidepods at all is somewhat detached from reality, there’s good reason to suggest that Mercedes will introduce a new package that shrinks the car’s sidepods considerably more those the team benchmarked for performance in Barcelona.

In order to imagine the direction Mercedes might be travelling in, we only have to look as far as its powerunit customer Williams. The Grove team’s extreme sidepod and engine cover design on its new FW44 features one of the…