The German manufacturer are still trying 🐻to fully understand their troublesome W13, which has displayed biౠg performance disparities throughout the 2022 season. 

After getting to the bottom of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:porpoising is🐭sues that plagued Mercedes’ competitiveness at the start of the year, attention switched to extracting the true potential of the W13, which features a unique sidepod design that differs greatly to their rivals’ 𒁏cars. 

Encouraging progr𒅌ess was made prior to the summer break, with Mercedes enjoying a streak 📖of podium finishes and securing their first pole position of the season in Hungary. 

But Mer🍸cedes endured a miserable qualifying session at Spa-Francorchamps, with Lewis Hamilton ending up 1.8s off the pace, before George Russell went on to finish fourth in the race. 

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff jo🃏ked the W13 isn’t going to have “the highest place in the Mercedes-Benz mu🗹seum in Stuttgart” and would be better off “in the caves” after failing to challenge for wins so far this year. 

The inconsistent performance patterns of the W13 has made a decision over Mercedes’ development for 2023 more complicated. 

"It's a very difficult situation because we obviously have a certain concep🤪t of a car," Wolff explained. "It's not like we can experiment a lot this year and just simply dial stuff out and test.

"So whatever we decide for next year needs to be carefully evaluated because clea▨rly our data don't give us the results, and don't correlate with the reality. We have massive swings in performance that we can't really get on top of.

"In this very moment, to take a decision for next year, whatever it may be, changing the concept dramatically - how can you be sure that that's♔ the better direction to go because clearly we'll be starting a little bit way back?

“That is going to be part of the decisions in the upcomi🔯ng few weeks about what we want to do about it.”

Mercedes yet to commit to 2023 concept 

Wolff said M𝐆ercedes is yet to commit to a concept for nex𒉰t season while internal discussions over what to do continue. 

"It's quite difficult to say what is the concept," he said. "Is it the chassis in its current shape? What is that? I▨s it weight distribution? Is it where you can put the mechanical and aero balance? Is it the bodywork concept?

"All these different pillars of the car are evaluated and it could mean that some of that g𝓰oes and some of that st🐻ays. And that's what we're looking at the moment.”

One-lap pace has been a weakness for Mercedes compared to their performance over a race distance, with struggles to get tyres up to temperature - particularly in cooler conditions li🌳ke quali😼fying in Belgium - further hindering the true competitiveness of the W13. 

Wolff admitted Me๊rcedes’ failure to pinpoint a specific reason for their perform✱ance swings has only made the process trickier. 

“Today we are getting it wrong and the n✨on-correlation in various areas is causing us to not perform,” he said. 

“N♌ow, maybe there is a single thing that overshadows everything and we are not doing it justice to question every part of the car.

“Are the tyres sometꦑhing that we fundamentally don’t understand and all the rest is good? Or is the aero ♚messing it up? Or the mechanical balance? That is so difficult to dissect."