Mercedes have a “fundamental” issue with the design of their 2024 F1 car which they currently “don’t understand”, accordin�𝔉�g to Toto Wolff.

It was another disappointing showing from Mercedes at the second round of the season in Saudi Arabia as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished sixth and ninth respectively.

After the race, seven-time world champion Hamilton claimed Mercedes st🥃ill need to make “big changes” to the W15, which was significantly revamped over the winter.

A frustrated Hamilton said it felt “l♛ike I was in a different category” compared to Mercedes’ rivals as he lamented his car’s lack of performance thr🎶ough Jeddah’s high-speed corners.

“There is something which we dღon't understan༒d," Wolff acknowledged. “We are quick everywhere else pretty much.

“We know that we have a smaller rear wing, we're co🎶mpensating what we're losing through the corners. But it's just at high speed where we're losing all the lap time.

"I think that's a biggi🔯e. There’s only so much you can ꦗtune here.

"Our simulations point us in a direction and this isꦉ the kind of set-up range that we then choose, where you put the right rear wing on.

“I think you'll gain a few tenths or not if you get the set-up right o🧸r wrong, but there's not a massive corridor of perfo🤪rmance.

“It's more a fundamental thing, that we believe that the speed should be there. We meꦫasure the downforce but we don't find it in lap time.”

But Wolff remains confident that Mercedes can find ✅a swift remedy for their current headache.

"It's been two years that there is something we need to spot, and that💝's the thing to unlock. We have just got to work,” he added.

"It's not through lack of trying. We've pushed so hard and we're going to give it a massive, massive go no𓆏w in the next week,&♛nbsp;with more data to understand.

"We are going to 💮;come back to Melbourne strong. We are on a mission on this one. And I am 100% sure that we are 💙going to unlock that performance gap."