Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has insisted he is confident his squad is heading in the right direction despite a testing weekend in Belgium.
The Silver Arrows failed to walk away with a podium result in the last event before the summer break, with onboard footage of its car showing excessive bouncing along the straights.
Mercedes' W13 challenger last year promoted severe bouncing issues last season and although it successfully eradicated most of the problems in the time since, Spa's showing sent alarm bells ringing at the team again.
"Yeah, we have got to analyse it," Wolff told media including RacingNews365.com.
"There's so much hard work that's been going on under the upgrades, the aero guys and operations to deliver that upgrade.
"You’ve got to take your hat off. I think the floor could have been a reason why we've been bouncing but we're going to see it in the data.
"And maybe there's something which we need to fine-tune because I still believe that the direction that we're going now is the right one."
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'Spa was a major step for us'
Lewis Hamilton ended the Belgian Grand Prix fourth, two positions ahead of teammate George Russell.
Although it couldn't capture a top three at the Belgian track, Wolff has asserted that Mercedes can take confidence from its form at Spa-Francorchamps when directly compared to its efforts at the circuit last term.
"When you compare to the rest of the world, Spa was an awful race. Before the last stop, Perez, Leclerc and us were within six or eight seconds.
"That is a major step for us because Spa was a disaster in 2022.
"So we feel we've made that step but then you have the top guy that made another step in advance.
"We just got to you know, turn around the facts."
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