After a good performance at the Monaco Grand Prix, Red Bull had expected to be the team to beat at the Hungaroring – a circuit nicknamed “Monaco Without Barriers”.
Lewis Hamilton stormed into pole position when Mercedes locked out the front row for the first time since the Portuguese Grand Prix.
Looking back on the past weekend, Shovlin, Mercedes Engineering Director on the track, expected that Red Bull would do better in Hungary.
“Yes, because we thought this would be a route that should suit them.” It was all over for the Monacos and this place.
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“But maybe they couldn’t make up for that, they gave up on Saturday and it seems strange to us that you would ever drive anything other than your largest rear wing here.
“We’re not admitting why they’re making decisions on this car, but it could be that they just had trouble getting enough front end on the big wing so they fell for the smaller one.”
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Shovlin admitted that Mercedes doesn’t fully understand why it did so well.
“We’ll have to look at that in the next few days,” added Shovlin. “To be honest, we’re relying on pretty minor developments now, but we had the update kit at Silverstone and that looks like it gave us a useful feat.
“But then the car worked well here, where it kept its tire temperatures, and we had a pretty good balance with it. To be honest, we ourselves are surprised by this. It is a pleasant surprise because we are surprised that, for example, we had so much lead over pole. “
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