Pessimistic Toto Wolff not expecting Montreal to suit Mercedes' upgraded W14 F1 car
Mercedes had their best race of the season so far last time out at the Spanish Grand Prix, with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell securing a double podium behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s dominant Red Bull.
It 🧜came a week after the eight-time constructors’ world champions debuted a major upgrade package in Monaco but Mercedes team principal Wolff has downplayed hopes of a repeat performance in Montreal.
"The result in Spain was a well-deserved reward for everyone's efforts at Brackley and Brixworth to bring our update package to the track,” Wolff said. “We were pleased ꦛwith how it performed, and it will provide a new baseline for us to bui♐ld from.
"But we ꦡmust also manage our expectations. It was a circuit thatꦛ suited our car, and we should expect our direct competitors to be stronger in the next races. The gap to Red Bull is large and it will take lots of hard work to close that down. Nevertheless, we're up for the challenge.
"We now move on to Montreal. With its long straights and low✤-speed corners, it's not a track that we expect to suit our car as well as Barcelona did.
"No matter where the true pace of the car is this weekend, we will a♎im to maximise our result. The characteristics of the circuit will also pro🅺vide further opportunity to learn about the W14 and feed into our development path.”
Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said the t𒅌eam is anticipating a tight battle with the likes of Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine.
“We are thinking it will be more along the lines of some of the earlier races where we were def💃initely in the bunch with Ferrari, with Aston, and now Alpine look to have joined that group,” he explained.
"But it's great racing th🌱ere. It will be good fun and we are certainly going to be fighting to find every little bit ofও performance we can because the way the grid stacks up now you can be P2 or you can be P10, and there are only a few tenths in it.
"We are looking forward to more exciting racing b🌄ut certainly we are aware that Canada is🎀 likely to be a bigger challenge than the Sunday we just had in Barcelona."
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