Allison believes Mercedes' new car makes last years look 'clumsy'

James Allison has praised the design of the team's new car and says that the new design makes last years car look 'start to look clumsy and naive.' The technical director breaks down the new car in the video below.    

"It's an interesting thing that things we thought last year were a source of great pride to us that we thought we had pushed to the very limit, start to look clumsy and naive by comparison," he said to Autosport. 

Two silver @F1 siblings, side by side. But how do W10 and its predecessor compare? James Allison explains all! pic.twitter.com/xGRXsvpCpa

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"Take last year's sidepods as an example, they were something we made quite a big fuss about because they were tighter than we'd ever managed to make them in any previous year.

"But look at these sidepods [on the 2019 car], look at this bodywork, and it is just vacuum-wrapped to the car in a way that we just wouldn't have thought possible 12 months earlier.

"Similarly on the front suspension, we've been able to lift them further.

"The same is true everywhere, if you were to take the skin off this car and look underneath it you'd find that in every part of the car it's been just pushed a tighter, made a bit stiffer, made a bit lighter and just bought more performance."

Mercedes are thought to be slightly behind their rivals but could have been hiding their speed during testing.