Mercedes has denied it is building a car especially tailored to Michael Schumacher’s driving style for the 2011 season.<\/p>\n
The seven time world champion has struggled on his return to formula one this season, with a car designed essentially by Brawn when the Brackley based team thought Jenson Button would be driving it.<\/p>\n
Schumacher has openly written off the rest of the 2010 campaign, amid suggestions he is waiting for the W01’s successor that will be tailored to his driving style.<\/p>\n
“We are not building a car around Michael; we just want to develop a good car,” team boss Ross Brawn is quoted by the SID news agency.<\/p>\n
“There is no special characteristic,” he insisted.<\/p>\n
But Brawn had already acknowledged at Monza that Schumacher’s 2011 campaign depended in part on “how good the Pirelli tyre is” next year.<\/p>\n
Schumacher commented: “I cannot remember a car that was designed to a specific style of driving.<\/p>\n
“The only thing is a continuous development with the drivers, which can go in certain directions.\u00a0 But first of all it’s about making the car as fast and as efficient as possible,” he added.<\/p>\n
Brawn said the gestation period of the 2010 car means it will never be a race winner, but he is hopeful about the future.<\/p>\n
“We think we understand why we are where we are with this car,” said the Briton.<\/p>\n
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