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Mercedes are hoping they won't repeat their 2015 Singapore Grand Prix performance as Formula One returns to the city state this weekend.
Last year's race under the lights was uncharacteristically uncompetitive for the Silver Arrows, with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg missing out on the top three in qualifying and the race.
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Now one year on, the team's executive director on the technical side, Paddy Lowe, hopes that the team can put in a better performance.
"This was not a good race for us last year and a lot of work has been done during the intervening 12 months to understand why that was," Lowe told Sky Sports. "It's a matter of great interest for us as a team to see if we can come back and get it right this time around. Of course, we haven't been able to test on the circuit, so all of our theories are just theories at this stage."
"We've got a lot more work ahead to get ourselves in a good position during practice, to qualify well and then to have a strong race," he added.
Mercedes' motorsport boss Toto Wolff echoed Lowe's sentiments, saying that the team has done a lot of work since last season's Singapore Grand Prix.
"We weren’t competitive there last year and I think we understood why," he was quoted by ESPN. "We made some conclusions that helped us in the following races and throughout the season, and in Singapore, we are going to check if we were right."
"There is no silver bullet or one thing that went wrong, but many things probably related to each other. This is why I’m really curious and excited to see how Singapore is going to work."
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