Failure to grasp a major overhaul to F1’s technical regulations left Mercedes facing 🧜a challenging campaign, with the German manufacturer seeing their streak of success come to an end in 2022. 

Mercedes started the year on the back foot compared to rivals Red Bull and Ferrari and their troubled✃ W13 c💟hallenger only looked genuinely competitive at certain tracks. 

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At most venues, Mercedes were only the third-fastest team, but168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell led 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton in a 1-2 as the team🦄 claimed their only victory of the season in Brazil. 

While improveme൲nts were made as the year progressed, Mercedes slipped back to their usual level of performance at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Following a difficult qualifying at Yas Marina, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff revealed the amusing name behind the team’s too♑l to predict how well their W13 wo🔯uld fare at each track. 

“We always knew that we need to be prudent and not set our expectations based on the Brazil result,” he told media including mahbx.com on Saturday. 

“I think that circuit pe༒rfectly suited our car and everything ran very, very smoothly. And Abu Dhabi in our ‘table of doom’ wa𓄧s one of the worst tracks - not catastrophic like the high-speed tracks, but still not ideal.”

Speaking in a post-race debrief video from Abu Dhabi, Mercedes chief strategist James Vo𓂃wles further explained the team’s ‘tab🧜le of doom’. 

“This is someth🍸ing that we have const𝕴ructed internally that allows us to somewhat predict where our car will be relative to certainly the fastest cars track on track and it worked fairly well,” he said. 

“It’s something that actually had fairly gಌood correlation across the season and it did say that in for example Mඣexico and Brazil we would be significantly more competitive than we were going to be in Abu Dhabi. 

“It's a function of the properties that make our car both strong and weak and that transpired to be true and as perhaps negative as it comes across that's a very good thing because it means that the properties of our car that we understand we actually have a good grasp on them sufficiently so that they actually lo💧ok to be real in real life and then the reasons behind it look to be corr🌳elated.”

Vowles said Mercedes understand why they fell behind Red Bull and Ferrari in Abu Dhab🧸i, despite dominating in Br🔥azil just one week earlier. 

“Part of it is that I think Ferrari moved backwards across Mexico and Brazil🎶, hard to explain why, but they definitely weren’t ღas competitive there as they were towards the end of the season in Abu Dhabi,” he explained. “They were a fierce rival in Abu Dhabi, very, very quick on the straight line and competitive overall with good tyre degradation. 

“That doesn’t obviously explain Red Bull aꦇnd why we moved back to them, but I think that is explained in the properties of where our car is weak and where it is strong and Brazil had a lot of cornering sequences, types of corners, speeds of corner that really suit the characteristics of our car which unfortunately we didn’t have in Abu Dhabi. 

“The final one🍎 is Abu Dhabi is very, very cool conditions once we were really racing at night and we saw a few properties on the tyre a little bit of gra﷽ining appearing on the front axle and on the rear axle and that for sure hurt us in the race.”