Following their disappointing start to the 2023 season, Mercedes are now pursui꧟ng a change in design philosophy to the one they had initially persisted with after a challenging 2022 c𝓀ampaign. 

After a difficult opening two races, the team enjoyed an upturn in form at the Australian Grand Prix, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton qualifying second and third in Melbourne, before Hamilton went on to claim Mercedes’ first podium of the season with second place behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen. 

But Wolff quickly cautioned that Mercedes would🧔 not get carried away with their encouraging performance swing and would remain focused on trying to close the signific🌌ant deficit to dominant early pace-setters Red Bull. 

Over the Australia weekend, Wolff ruled out Mercedes introducing their f🐈irst upgrades for the W14 until at least the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at 🎉the end of May. 

He has since expanded on M𒅌ercedes’ deve♔lopment plan, revealing there will be a “consistent” flow of updates to come. 

ܫ"We will consistently be bringing upgrades to the car over the next few races, which is something to look forward to,” Wolffꦇ said in a Q&A published on Mercedes’ website. 

“But there is no such thing as a magic bullet that transforms the car,🌳 and it's about being realistic with your expectations. Hopefully we will see a steady improvement.”

Wolff insisted that Mercedes now have the understanding requi♋red to turn things around in their long-term quest to return to the front of the F1 grid. 

"We understand the knowledge that we need to recover,” he explained. “We need to have a st🦩eeper development curve than Red Bull and fund🍨amentally, we want to compete for race wins. 

“They are setting the benchmark now. We trust in the process and in the people, and there will be setbacks♉. But if the trajecto🦩ry is up, that's where we want to be heading.” 

While Wolff urged his team not to “oscillate too much between exuberance and depression”, he said there are positives to take from Mercedes’ performance in A𒅌ustralia. 

"In terms of car development, it is encouraging to see that within three races, we understand the car much better, we have defined a clear direction where we need to go and I believe we are on the right trajectory,” he added.&🙈nbsp;

"We need🦩 to consolidate our understꦗanding and hopefully over the next few races we can make another step.”