Lewis Hamilton will head to the McLaren factory in Woking and again demand the kind of effort that sparked the team's about turn last season.
McLaren's problems are nowhere near as acute as a year ago after building a car that languished towards the back of the field for the first half of the season.
Hamilton played an instrumental role in rallying the troops, which resulted in a strong second half of the year that yielded two wins.
Following Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, this year's car clearly has potential, but is lacking in pace compared to Ferrari and Red Bull.
It is why Hamilton will now call on the team to throw their all into bridging the gap as soon as possible to ensure they do not concede too much ground to their rivals in the early stages.
"Our pace in the race is not bad, not as bad as we first thought, but we still need to push really hard to close up to the Ferraris and Red Bulls," insisted Hamilton.
"If we keep pushing then I do feel we can close the gap to these guys, and hopefully be on the top of the podium.
"It's going to be difficult in such a short time frame to do that, so I need to go back now and give the team the biggest push.
"They are all pushing flat out as it is, but one extra person or two extra people can be more of a force.
"We need to get some more upgrades. It's that simple. We have them coming throughout the year, but we need to bring as many forward as possible to close the gap.
"We need to work out how to improve the low-speed downforce because that is really where they are taking the time away from us."
Hamilton at least has the early edge on new team-mate Jenson Button after a weekend in which he comfortably finished ahead of the World Champion in both qualifying and the race.
It has prompted Mercedes GP managing director Nick Fry to suggest Button will spend the time before the next race in Australia on March 28 analysing what he has to do to beat Hamilton.
"There's clearly a gap that Jenson is going to have to close. It's absolutely self-evident," remarked Fry, who worked with Button for a number of years at Honda and Brawn GP before his move to McLaren.
"I'm sure he'll now be looking at what he can do to close the gap to Lewis, who does have home-team advantage at the moment.
"But the longer Jenson stays with the team, the more that reason goes away.
"He'll have to be looking at all aspects of his own performance, not only how he drives, but also the way he works with the team.
"Jenson will know all those things, and he's got to work hard."
