Toto Wolff: “Throw car in a trash can” - Lewis Hamilton? “It doesn’t help to sulk”
Mercedes came away from Bahrain with fifth and seventh, over 50 seconds behind dominant race winner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
As a result, Wolff has hinted that Mercedes may adopt a completely new car concept later in the season, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has expressed his frustration.
Remarkably, Mercedes were behind Aston Martin in Bahrain ꧅- who run Mercedes’ power unit, rear suspension and use their wind tunnel.
Talking to ORF, Wolff reve𝓡aled that simply changing their sidepod design isn’t a quick fix.
"We can throw our car in the trash can. One team [Red Bull] is miles ahead. They play with the competition 🦂- they don't even have tyre wear," he said.
"That could be done," Wolf explained when asked about Mercedes’ sidepods. "But youﷺ can't just merrily put sidepods on the car, it's all about the airflow.
"Our car is lean but not fast. Last y🧸ear, our car got better and better and then won races. That's why we decided to stic𒁏k with the concept.
"Then yoཧu start a new season and suddenly you see th𒆙at nothing works."
Mercedes’ poor start to the yea♚r has attracted some vocal criticism from Hamilton, who is in the final year of his contract with the team.
Wolff described Hamilton as “a great team player”, but stated that “it doesn’t 💛help to sulk a lot”.
“He’s a great team player and grown up enough to 💫accept reality,” Wo☂lff added.
𝓡“It doesn’t help to sulk a lot. We have to try to turn this thing around.”
Mercedes sit th꧃ird in the F1 constructors’ championship going into next weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah, seven points behind Aston Martin.
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