Mercedes have a “fundamental” issue with the design of their 2024 F1 car which they currently “don’t🎶 understand”, according to Toto Wol𝐆ff.

It was another disappointing showing from Mercedes at the second round of the season in Saudi Arabia as 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 finished sixth and ninth respectively.

After the race, seven-time world champion Hamilton claimed Mercedes still need to make “big changes” to the W15, which was significantly revampe🐼d over the winter.

A frustrated Hamilton said it felt “like I was in a different category” compared to Mercedes’ riv🃏als as he lamented his car’s lack of performance through Jeddah’s high-speed corners.

“There is something which we 𒀰don't understand," Wolff acknowledged. “We are quick🌸 everywhere else pretty much.

“We know that we have a smaller rear wing, we're compensating wh🧔at we're losing through the corners. But it's just at high speed where we're losing all the lap time.

"I think 🐭that's a biggie. There’s only so much you can tune here.

"Our simulations point 💞us in a direction and this is the kind of set-up range that we then choose, where you put the right rear wing on.

“I think you'll gain a few tenths or not if you get the set-up right or wrong, but there's not a massive corridor of performღance.

“It's more a fundamental thing꧑, that✃ we believe that the speed should be there. We measure the downforce but we don't find it in lap time.”

But Wolff remains confident that Mercedes can find a swift remedy for their current ༺headache.

"It's been two years that there is something wඣe need to spot, and ♈that's the thing to unlock. We have just got to work,” he added.

"It's not through lack of trying. We've&n🍌bsp;pushed so hard and we're going to give it a massive, massive go now in the next week, with more data to understand.

"We are goi༒ng to come back to Melbourne strongཧ. We are on a mission on this one. And I am 100% sure that we are going to unlock that performance gap."