The stats behind Mercedes’ worst start to an F1 season in over a decade
Mercedes have endured their worst start to an F1 se🧔ason in over a decade - but how does it compare?
It’s been a miserable start f🐷or Mercedes in 202♓4, failing to finish on the podium at any of the opening five races.
Astonishingly, in raw performance terms, Mercedes are slower than two of their customer teams in raw performance terms - McLaren and Aston Martin♏.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell kicked off Mercedes’ 2024 campa♐ign with a respective P5 at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, finishing behind the two Red Bulls and two Ferraris.
However, since then, Merceওdes have struggl📖ed to bag big points.
On the other side of the garage, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has finished ninth on three occasions, making it his own๊ worst start to an F1 season.
How bad has it been?
Mercedes’ start to the 2024 F1 season is their wor📖st in over a decade, stretching back to 2012.
Mercedes have scored 5🅘2 points in the opening five races.
Only in two other seaso💫ns (in the modern era) hav🏅e they scored fewer points. 2012 (43 points) and 2011 (40 points).
Mercedes’ best to worst starts to F1 season
2019 - 217
2015 - 202
2014 - 197
2020 - 180
2017 - 161
2016 - 157
2018 - 153
2021 - 148
2023 - 96
2022 - 95
2013 - 72
2010 - 72
2024 - 52
2012 - 43
2011 - 40
Can Mercedes turn it around?
Based on the previous two years, probably not.
It appears unlike McLaren and Ferrari, let alone Red Bull, they don’t have a clear grasp of what works under this current set of technical regulꦉations.
Mercedes insist their numbers and data back at base reads well but it doesn’t t♋ranspire on track.
Mercedes are introducing a significant upgrade for Miami as ♊they look to turn their season around.
"I think considering where we put the cars altogether, drivers and team, was not a go𝓡od position for today. Not good enough overal🌃l,” Toto Wolff said on Sunday.
"Lacking ♐paceꦅ. We have got to dig deep. We have got something coming for Miami that looks like a good step, let's see where that brings us out.
"It's not an OK car. We can see what the mistakes are on the car. We wanted to go a bit more aggressive to see if it was something so different we needed to do on that car and you 😼can see Lewis today took🍌 it on him, that was maybe a step too far."
"The race car was not fast. You hear him saying the car doesn't turn and t🍎his is what we can see in the data. it waꦕsn't the right thing to do."
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