Are Mercedes back? Toto Wolff gives verdict after best race of F1 2023 so far

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished a distant second behind Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen but led Mercedes’ first double podium of the year as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell brilliantly recovered to third.
The Mercedes cars, heavily-revised following a major upgrade at last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, were second-fastest behind thℱe dominant Red Bulls in Sunday’s race in Barceloജna.
Asked if Mercedes ar🌸e back following their best race of 2023, Wolff told Sky: ”Let'꧋s keep our expectations real.
“ꦑThere🍎's such a long way to go in order to catch Red Bull. We just need to grind away.
“It's a good moment to see that the development direction is right.🌱”
Wolff a⛎dded: “I think the learnings are is that we have a good race car.&⛦nbsp;
“I think Lewis was a good five-six seconds behind Max when he cleared Carlos, and I think we are jꩵust much closer.
“But you see where🅰 the benchmark is. The gap at the end was 20 seconds. Maybe it is 15 in reality but that is just not wherꦺe we aim to be.”

But Wolff is confident ♈Mercedes can continue to make gains now that they have a clear development path since taking the decision to abandon th🌱eir ‘zeropod’ concept.
“We just need to chip away,” Wolff said.
“We’re really good at grinding. Once there is a set-up direction and we develop in that direction, we just go for it. We have that advan🦹tage in terms of aero time.
“But we also have to be realistic. Today the temperatures really suited us. It was nice and fresh. Not too col꧃d, not too hot, the car was in the absolute mega wi🀅ndow.”

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