Toto Wolff dropped a hint that even Adrian Newey would struggle to solve Mercedes’ problems in M🧔iami.

George Russell qualified seventh and Lewis Hamilton eighth for the F1 Miami 🦄Grand Prix.

They both fai♛led to score a point in Saturday's sprint race.

Once more, both Mercedes ༒drivers gave worrying verdicts about the competitiveness of the W15.

Mercedes team principal Wolff was asked about his interest in New🍌ey, Red Bull’s outgoing chief technical officer who is seemingly up for grabs.

“He is an incredible ✤engineer," Wolff said to .

"But a💫t the moment, even the greatest magician would probably have a hard time solving our problems.🉐"

Mercedes, like every other 🦋top team in F1, i🔯s expected to hold an interest in Newey’s next move.

Newey, widely considered the gr🔜eatest-ever Formula 1 car designer, will depart Red Bull next year.

Ferrari are seemingly🉐 best-placed to bring him on board. Newey would find Hamilton in red next year.

Hamilton 𒉰🔴offered a bleak review of his qualifying on Saturday.

"For us to be eighth tenths of𓄧f is tough,” he said.

“We are fighting the Haas and I don't really know if that's the true sp💧eed oﷺf our car or whether it's the tyres.”

Russﷺell said after qualifying: “When we look at the data we understand whyꦉ we’re in the position we are right now.

“We’ve gone from this extreme to that extreme now so we’ve ♑got to rewind and find ourse🐻lves in a halfway house.”

Me🌞rcedes brought a revised floor upgrade to Miami.

Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin explained: "Over the next four or five races, ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthere are other developments that we're looking at to try and get the car handling a bit more consistently, and a bit less tricky to work with. ꦐBut that's all coming in the next few [races].

"We are just behind on development, which is one of the areas w🌱e need to improve.

“But also just getting the car t🍌o be a🔯 bit more versatile across a range of tracks will be a very important focus for us."