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Jolyon Palmer believes Mercedes will be in contention for victory at Paul Ricard next weekend due to several factors that play to the W13’s strengths.

Lewis Hamilton was able to compete with the front-runners on pure pace for much of the British Grand Prix in a heavily updated car after F1 moved back to ‘traditional’ circuits following three bumpy street tracks that showed up the worst of Mercedes’ bouncing issues.

Team principal Toto Wolff still thinks the team are lacking ‘two or three tenths’ compared to Red Bull and Ferrari right at the front, but Hamilton has taken three podium finishes in a row after a tough start and George Russell has kept up his consistent form through the season so far.

With the way their pace has improved over the course of the year and factoring in the smooth track surface in Le Castellet, former Renault driver Palmer believes the reigning Constructors’ champions could be in with a chance of winning the French Grand Prix.

“Back on a conventional race circuit at Silverstone, and with another raft of upgrades, the team looked as though they had the possibility of winning again with Hamilton, although it was undoubtedly helped by damage hampering Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc,” Palmer wrote in his post-Austrian Grand Prix column for Formula1.com.

“Austria wasn’t expected to be