Mercedes planning “radical changes” for 2023 F1 car

Team boss Toto Wolff promised at the car’s launch last month that a revised sidepod design was already on the way, one that would the car move away from the ‘size-zero’ design carried over from last year’s W13.

After a disappointing performance in Bahrain, Wolff suggested that the concept of the car wasn’t working, and Shovlin has confirmed that the team will have to look beyond changes to the sidepods.

“People have tended to use the word concept when they mean the…