Karun Chandhok believes Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff 𒉰is behav๊ing and talking like a man “who’s frustrated”.

For the third year in a row, Mercedes are enduring a disappointing start to an F1 season, with their ඣ2024 challenger’s performance proving to be vastly underwhelming across the opening four rounds.

Despite overhauling theiꦿr design concept with the W15, Mercedes still appear to be no closer to mastering the understanding of the latest ground-effect regulations that were introduced in 2022.

Wolff has admitted that the team’s wind tunnel data is not correlating to on-track performance and said the 𓆏W15 is exhibiting characteristics that “m꧅ake no sense”.

"I think he's a man who's frustrated,” C༺ha🍸ndhok said on the Sky Sports F1 podcast.

“The best Mercedes was 45 seconds 🐬off the win but if we take the Red Bulls out of it, they were still 25 seconds behind the best non-Red Bull, which is a huge amount in a Grand Prix.

“Toto made an interesting co෴mment to Ted [Kravitz] after the race, where he sai🎉d the first stint was terrible and after that, it was not so bad.

"I looked back at some of the numbers and it's little bit better, but in the first stint, they lost 𝔉11 seconds to Sainz in 15 laps, which is three-quarters of a second nearly. After that, they still lost on average about 0.6 per lap. So it was🌸 a little bit better, but not a lot better.

“So I think they were the comments of a frustrated man, who has come off a tremeꦬndous run of success and is again staring at another season, of the team that he co-owns, unlikely to win the World Championship.

"That's not the standards that he's used toꦆ or expects, I think, from the team.”

Martಞin Brundle has described Mercedes’ correlation problems 🎃as “very worrying”.

“Toto wears his heart on 🅷his sleeve doesn’t he, especially when wꦓe catch him just after yet another disappointment in the Mercedes team,” he added of Wolff.

“He tend🔴s to blurt it out, in terms of what he thinks about his own team and other teams.”