Toto Wolff reveals that Mercedes have made “big steps” and “unlocked potential” of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s struggling W14
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell finished in third-place at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was P5, altho✱ugh he remains downbeat about his inability to coax performance out of his 2023 machinery.
But, after Wolff promised the entire concept of the W14 must be reconsid🃏ered, he has now given details of how the car is set to be majorly improved.
“We’re making really big steps at the moment with our research and development,🎉 with our understanding in the wind tunnel,” he said.
He emphasised: “That is really big steps!”
"We just needed to have the conf🌼irmation in Bahrain that we got it wrong, now we have that. And that’s why I would never write off anything.
“Is it realistic after today’s performance [in Saudi Arabia qu⛄alifying] that we can talk about the world championship? No, it’s not, you’re a fool if you think that way.
“Equally, it’s motor racing. You must never give up and if we contiꦓnue to do the big steps that we’ve already done in t🦹he last 10 days, then I think we’ll come to a stage where we’re really able to race for wins."
He exp♕lained about the W14’s impending advancements: "Big steps, in relative performance to where we are even now.
“The kind of gains that are coming in our R&D and then in aero are much bigger than we've had oღver a long time.
"We've u🅷nlocked some potential because we simply look at things from different angles now.
“We have a di𝐆fferent perspective because of our learnings of the Bahrain test and the༺ Bahrain race.
"So there was no step back. On the con𒁏trary, it was immediately 🧸two steps forward."
Wolff previously confirmed to Sky 🐭that Mercedes had settled on “one design philosophy” after a tense meeting post-Bahrain.
"I think that the car is going to look very different in five, six or seven races based on the decisions that we have taken and the developme🐼nt direction that we have embarked on,” he claimed.
James was a🎃 sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
