After enduring their first winless F1 campaign since 2011 last season, Mercedes are pinning their hopes of returning to the fr🌱ont of the grid on an all-new car concept for their W15 c🌃hallenger. 

Mercedes have experienced an unprꦉecedented run of poor competitiveness since new F1 regulations were introduced at the start of 2022, having got their car design wrong in back-to-back s♉easons. 

And♑ Brundle believes many changes behind the scenes, including the loss 🐟of several key figures in recent years, has played its part in Mercedes’ current slump. 

“I thi🎀nk there's no doubt about it, Mercedes quite clearly are not the force they were, because they didn't get the 2022 car right and they didn't fix it for 2023,” Brundle said in a Sky F1 Q&A. 

“And the🔯re has been a lot of personnel movement because they're obviously very attractive people from the era of total domination that they had.

“You see it in other sports, where a group of people seemingly just couldn't lose, and then all of a sudden, they can't win. It's re꧅ally odd, and all it needs is a couple or three pieces of the jigsaw puzzle changing one way or the other.

“It's a mig🐟hty team, but they've got to align their stars again, and 2024 is a big year for Mercedes.” 

Brundle was also asked who he thinks out of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton or168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell would be best placed to win a world championship, if Me♚rcedes produce a car capable of taking the fight to Red Bull in the next two years. 

“I think they're so close, those two, if you look at the stats, but George had a couple of nightmare races this 🤪year. That's a very good question,” he responded. 

"It dep⭕ends if Lewis maintains his current motivation, but it's so close to call. Lewis knows how to do that but George has got youth on his side. I don't know the a𝔍nswer to that, but I definitely wouldn't say, ‘oh, Lewis without a doubt, because he's already a seven-time champion.' That I would absolutely not say.

“Until Ge🍌orge is in a championship winning position, we don't know if he's got the head to cope with it.” 

When asked if he thinks Hamilton will retire if the seven-time world champion’s struggles continue in 2024, Brundle replied: “I th🌸ink if Lewis senses that eighth title is unachievable in a reasonable time frame, he'll be thinking of Plan B.”