Andrew Shovlin talks Mercedes "most challenging Friday"

Andrew Shovlin believes the Mercedes issues will not get better throughout the weekend, as they continue to struggle with the issues regarding the ride comfort and lack of downforce, something that has become a common issue for Mercedes since Monaco.

Troubles continue in Silver Arrows camp

The head of trackside engineering for Mercedes has this to say in a press release following FP2 in Canada "We tested a few modifications to the cars to help the issues that we had in Baku and we'll continue to analyse that data, but the picture here is similar to that in Monaco and Baku where the ride is really unsettling the car both in low and high-speed corners."  a glaring issue for the Silver Arrows team as their drivers continue to struggle to drive the car around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

"We're just finding different compromises on ride and downforce without adding significant performance overall." claims the Brit as he admits "The balance hasn't been great both on low and high fuel and whilst the ride issues are compounding that"

Look ahead to the rest of the weekend

"We can probably make a bit of progress on it overnight. We're mainly lacking rear grip which is likely something we can improve with the normal setup tools." Shovli says as he looks to find the bright side of what had been a difficult Friday, the 48-year-old then concludes "Whilst it's been one of our more challenging Friday's we'll continue to work hard tonight to optimise what we have as we've shown in recent races that we can still score strong points even witha difficult car."