Toto Wolff admits Mercedes have "lost a year" but seeks "inspiration" from Aston Martin's F1 turnaround
Mercedes endured a lacklustre start to F1 2023 as168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell finis🎃hed fifth and s♔eventh in Sunday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
Hamilton finished nearly a minute adrift of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and was beaten by both Red Bull’s, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin and Ferrari’s, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll put ꦕhis Aston Martin between the two Mercedes.
Wolff labelled the Bahrain opener as “one of the worst days in racing” and demande▨d “radical” changes for a new development approach after admitting Mercedes would need to need to change their radical sidepod concept to get 𒉰back to the front of the grid.
"When you look at where we wer🌱e at the end of the season, it seemed like we caught up a lot,” Wolff said. “But I think it was just a matter of which circuits suited us and which did not.
"I think we've almost doubled if not tripled the gap t🐬o Red Bull and this is what we need to look at, everything in between - the Ferrari - that's just a sideshow.
"And having said that, what Aston Martin was able to achieve is a good inspiration because they came back from two second💦s off the pace to being the second quickest team probably on the road.
"And with us, everything's bad.”
Wolff added: "We've los♔t a year in development in order to have a steeper development curve and you just need to take these decisions.
"As I said before, Aston Ma൩rtin to🔯ok that decision, and they came back strong.
"So if we start ♔from our base, maybe we can come back strong and c♛hase the Red Bulls. That's the ambition."
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