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Wolff ‘wouldn't discount' Mercedes reverting to fatter sidepods

With Mercedes still unable to eradicate their porpoising problems, Toto Wolff says he 'wouldn’t discount' the team reverting to the specification they ran at the opening Bahrain test. That means a W13 with fatter sidepods. Mercedes ran two very different sidepods during the two pre-season Bahrain tests, the first being an almost standard bulge and the second being their zero-pod. They opted to race the zero-pod design in the opening five races of this championship but it is said to be hindering the team's efforts to resolve their bouncing. As such Wolff admits in time they could revert to the fatter sidepods. 'Well, I wouldn’t discount anything,' he told The Race, 'but we need to give...
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