Mercedes technical director Mike Elliott confirmed that the team will take updates to Silverstone, with the aim of "trying to move the car forward and up the pack to the point of winning for the team and for our fans."

The car showed better form in Montreal after increasing the height to the ground in the cars of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, to try to alleviate the chop that has been plaguing them all season - with the exception of Barcelona - and these new updates will look to bring the current eight-time constructors' champion closer to the Bulls and Reds, who have won all nine races of the season here.

Red Bull has won seven of them and broken away in two. Ferrari won the other two races, but their drivers also broke twice each.

After struggling to get out of his car after the Azerbaijan GP, Hamilton said that the problem of team quiques had reduced significantly in Montreal, with a calculated 10G impact on his neck and back having been reduced to 2-3G - well within the forces normally experienced by drivers when cornering.

After a P3 and P4 for Hamilton and Russell in Canada, Elliott confirmed that the team is putting together new parts for the next race and try to contend for the win.

"One thing you can be sure of is that we're going to do as much as we can," Elliott said in Mercedes' post-race video.

"We'll bring new parts to Silverstone, we'll try to wash the car forward, trying to get more pace out of the car that we have or the package that we have, as well as the new parts that we're going to add to it."

"I think at the same time we have to be honest with ourselves and say that at the moment we are a little bit behind the Ferrari and Red Bull drivers. And in a normal race, it can be difficult."

"About the car being faster in the race than in qualifying, that's a choice you have to make. A setup geared towards qualifying hurts the race and vice versa. And with the car we have at the moment, we chose to favor the races, unlike what our opponents have been doing quite often. That's why our gap to them is usually smaller in the race."

But after two consecutive street races and one 'hybrid' race inside a park, Silverstone represents a return to more conventional circuits in Formula 1, and after showing great potential at the last such circuit in Spain, Elliott hopes to see Mercedes rise even higher and put on a show for the home drivers' fans.

"I think Silverstone will be a circuit that suits us a little bit better, like Barcelona, but maybe it's still a little bit difficult. Whatever happens, we will try our hardest," he said.

"Our drivers will try as hard as we can because we want to get back to winning. We want the team to win, we definitely want to win for all our fans, so we'll see what happens."

Editor's note: Mike Elliot, James Allison and all the other senior engineers at Mercedes, strongly believe in the innovative concept of the Mercedes W13. The Dude has informed us that they will continue to develop a way for the car to work until the Hungarian GP, a deadline agreed upon with Toto Wolff, so that they can contend for wins on a regular basis.