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‘Mercedes aero problems not easy to solve'

Mercedes have problems aplenty, according to Ralf Schumacher, who says the team has issues in the 'aerodynamic area' with its new W12. The pick of the field over the past seven years, winning every title since 2014, it seems unthinkable that Mercedes could get it wrong, but wrong is how it looked like in testing. Reliability, one of Mercedes' strong points in recent years, was lacking with the team finishing bottom of the lap count, 10 laps behind Aston Martin. Added to that the speed also wasn't there with Lewis Hamilton's fastest lap time more than a second slower than Max Verstappen in the Red Bull. Schumacher, a former driver turned pundit, says they have big problems with their W12....
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