Toto Wolff reveals Mercedes' 'consistent' F1 upgrade plan but warns there's "no magic bullet"
Following their 🐲disappointing start to the 2023 season, Mercedes are now pursuing a change in design philosophy to🐠 the one they had initially persisted with after a challenging 2022 campaign.
After a difficult opening two races, the team enjoyed an upturn in form at the Australian Grand Prix, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton qualifying second and third in Melbourne, before Hamilton went on to claim Mercedes’ first podium of the season with second place behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
But Wolff quickly cautioned that Merced𒉰es would not get carried away with their encouraging performance swing and would remain focused on trying to close the significant deficit to dominant early pace-setters Red Bull.
Over the Australia weekend, Wolff ruled out Mercedes introducing their first upgrades for the W14 u🐈ntil at least the Emilia Romagna Grand 🦹Prix at the end of May.
He has since expanded o♏n Mercedes’ development plan, revealing there will be a “consiste𒊎nt” flow of updates to come.
"We will consistently be bringing upgrades to the car over the next few races, which is something to look forward to,” Wolff said in a Q&A published on Mercedes’ web🌸site.
“But there is no such thing as a magic bullet that transforms the car, and it'♛s about being realistic with your expectations. Hopefully we will see a steady improvement.”
Wolff insisted that Mercedes now have the understanding required to turn things around in their long-term quest to return to the front o🌼f the F1 grid.
"We understand the knowledge that we need to recover,” he explained. “We need to have a steeper development curve than Red Bull and fꦡundamentally, we want to compete for race wins.
“They are setting the benchmark now. We trust in the process and in the people, and there will be setbacks. But if the trajectory is u🍸p, that's wher💜e we want to be heading.”
While Wolff urged his team not to “oscillate too much between exuberance and depression”, he said there ar🍷e positives to take from Mercedes’ performance in Australia.
"In terms of car development, it is encouraging to see that within three races, we understand the car much better, we have defined a clear direction where we need to go and I believe we ♕are on the right trajectory,” he added.
"We needꦿ to consolidate our understanding and h﷽opefully over the next few races we can make another step.”
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