Hamilton has insisted t🌃hat Mercedes require their greatest-ever six months of development to begin next 𝐆season with a car capable of challenging Red Bull.

The seven-✅time F1 champion has signed a new deal to place his faith in Mercedes’ ability to delivꦚer.

Team principal Wolff told about Hamilton’s words: “T♈hat's exactly what we tell ourselves every day: the development curve must be steep🍬er than ever. 

“We're putting our foot down. We will only be at the front if we are able t♔o put our car on a much better basis. 

“Because Red Bull is ✨so far ahead, we are completely changing ou✨r car concept.”

Wolff is aware that Red Bul💛l, having cruised through this season, will have already started thinking how to further improve their 2024 car.

“Absolutely so,” he said. 

“I know this from▨ the years when we were so far ahead:𒆙 you can start development even earlier.

“If the regulations don't change,꧂ it wilꦇl be even more difficult to catch up.”

Wolff was asked what Mercedesꦗ much change on their 2024 F1 car and he identified a key wea🀅kness.

“To put it bluntly, our car has a big problem: it swerves at the back and 𝔉the drivers have no confid💫ence when turning,” he said. 

“They need a car with which they can push again and not one in which they have to worry about flying off i🍨n every corner.”

T🙈his weekend’s F1 Qatar Grand Prix is a return to a race ♓where Hamilton won the only previous visit in 2021.

Wolff was asked if Hamilt𝕴on could w⛎in again but said: “No. With the many curves, our car is still unpredictable. 

“I ♉expect more in Mexico or Brꦗazil. By then I want to be fit and on site again.”

ꦇWolff is absent this weekend in Qatar as he recovers from knee surgery.