A🦩fter two races, Mercedes are without a podium finis🌳h - the last time this happened was in 2012.

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With the W14 not performing as they expected, Mercedes have confirmed 🌞they plan to go down an entirely different devel✃opment route and change their car concept.

Mercedes’ stuttering performance has led to a number of comments from Hamilton, who claimed the team didn’t listen to his feedback about last🐻 year’s car.

In an interview with Sky Sports during the Saudi Arabian GP weekend, Wolff said that Hamilton simply had a “another perspective”  and that he remains onboard🐼 with the team moving forward. 

“In the te♓am we don’t like to paint a picture better than it is,” Wolff said. “We are realistic. Even in the good years, we doub♌ted if it was good enough. 

“So we are now in a situation where we know ꧑it isn’t good enough. It makes no sense to make it look☂ any better to the outside world, or internally. It sounds like Lewis, saying these things, is not aligned with the team. But he is. As a matter of fact, we want the same thing - to win world championships.

“Some of us had a different view of how to doꦯ things. Others had another perspective. In the end, all of us decided together to stick with the concept and make it work, encouraged by the results at the end of [last year]. We got this totally wrong.

“He was one of the guys who said ‘I don’t feel right iꦰn this car’.”

Wolff admitted that Mercedes need to 🐈“reinvent ourselves” if they are to get bac🥃k to title-winning ways in the near future.

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“We n🅺eed to change our philosophy in terms of looking at data, analysing it,” he added. “We have to reinvent ourselves. As tough as it is, looking at the lap times, it is ♛a necessary evil.

“The t🎀eam is happier with me this year than last year. I am emotional. When I have angry moments they just say ‘this is Toto’. As a human I have improved, to be more balanced.”