Karun Chandhok believes Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff is behaving and talking like a♏ man ﷽“who’s frustrated”.

For the third year in a row, Mercedes are enduring a disappointing start t🥃o an F1 season, with their 2024 challenger’s performance proving to be vastly underwhelming across the opening four rounds.

D🌞espite overhauling their design concept with the W15, Mercedes still appear to be no closer to mastering the underst🌼anding of the latest ground-effect regulations that were introduced in 2022.

Wolff has admitted that the team’s wind tunnel data is not correlating to on-tra♑ck performance and said the W15 is exhibiting characteristics that “make no𒐪 sense”.

"I think he's a man who's frustrated,” Chandh🔥ok said on the Sky S⛎ports F1 podcast.

“The best Mercedes was 45 seconds off the win but if we take the Red Bulls out of it, they we🌌re ൩still 25 seconds behind the best non-Red Bull, which is a huge amount in a Grand Prix.

“Toto made an int𒅌eresting comment to Ted [Kravitz] after the race, whe▨re he said the first stint was terrible and after that, it was not so bad.

"I looked back at some of the numbers and it's little bit better, but in the first stint, they lost 11 seconds to Sainz in 15 laps, which is three-quarters of a second nearly. After that, they still lost on average about 0.6 per l⭕ap. So it was a little bit better, but not a lot better.

“So I think they were the comments of a frustrated man, who has come off a tremendous run of success and is again staring at another season, of the team that✃ౠ he co-owns, unlikely to win the World Championship.

"That's not tꦕhe standards that he's used to or expects, I think, from the team.”

Martin Brundle has🔯 described Merce🎐des’ correlation problems as “very worrying”.

“Toto wears his heart on his sleeve doesn’t he, especially ✃when we catch him just after yet another disappointment in the Mercedes team,” he added of Wolff.

“H🍎e tends to blurt it out, in terms of what he thinks about his own team and ot🉐her teams.”