Mercedes currently have the fourth-fastest car and have openly admitted that they plan to abandon their current car concꦜept.

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It means that the eight-time world champions could be set for another difficult y👍ear.

Speaking on Sky Sports duri♔ng their live coverage in Jeddah, Brundle spoke about Mercedes’ plight.

“It is very unusual for both Toto [Wolff] and Lewis [Hamilton] to be anything other than super-pos🐻itive about the Mercedes team,” he said. “They have obviously had an incredible amount of success together.

“But there’s trouble there, isn’t there? The car isn’t fa🔜st enough. Talking to a few🧔 people in the team, it’s going to be a while before they sort it out.

“The boꦯss is unhappy. He’s the light♔ning conductor. But you win and lose together.”

Brundle believes it’s going to beꦕ “the biggest test” of Toto Wolff’s time in charge of the team.

“This will be the biggest test of Toto’s tenure,” he added. “Despite ಌall the success, it’s about turning this around now. Keeping the right people involved, bringing in fresh energy, not upsetting the others, people will move on.”

“He needs to keep Lewis onboard, he’s got George who is obviously a huge talent for the🥃 futu💧re..

“I tread carefully when it comes to criticising the management of a team. Red Bull, for example, is a boulevard of activities with thousands of inc🐻redibly intelligent people worki💖ng on racing cars.

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“I am loathe to criticise [teams] because you see the resources, the skills, the knowledge going into it. Maybe it just needs fine-tuꦦning.

“But, ꧙you know, it can be avalanche when it goes wrong. Keeping their morale high. Toto wears his heart on his sleeve and he gets angry when he’s not happy.”