Toto Wolff reveals new details about Imola F1 upgrades to cure Mercedes' "poison"
Since the start of F1 2023, Mercedes have been pinꦛning their hopes on Imola as the turning point for their season.
Mercedes have st🌊ruggled for pace during the opening five races of the season, scoring just one podium🥃.
They’ve also been out-performed by customer team Aston Martin, who run Mercedes 🎶engines an♎d the rear of their car is purchased from the Brackley-based team.
After the race in Miami, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell played down th✱e lik🍌ely impact of the Imola upgrade.
While Wolff dism𒊎issed it as෴ being “a silver bullet”, he’s confident it will give Mercedes better long term development potential.
“We need to manage our own expectations, because we're bringing an update package that's going to consist of new suspension parts, bodywork and some other ✨things,” he revealed.
“But I have never in my 15 years in F1 seen a silver bullet being introduce🐠d, where suddenly you unlock half a second of perform⛦ance. So, I very much doubt that this is going to happen here.
“But what I'm looking forward to iꦿs that we take certain variables off the table, where we believe we could have introduced something that we don't understa💝nd in the car.
“[I am hoping] we can go more to a stable platform, and then we should see where the baseline is and what we can do from the🐽re.”
Wolff describ𓃲ed the incoming upgrade as “large surgery” with Mercedes set to make a raft of changes to cure the “poisonous” W14.
“I think we are chasing downforce and we're trying tꦐo do the best possible job in terms of the 🎃mechanical platform.
“What ♔we're doing is we're introducing a new bodywork, and we're introducing a new floor and we're doing a new front suspension and that's pretty large. That's a pretty large operation. Large surgery.🎃 It’s going to be a lot of learning in the virtual world, where it is good lap time.
“That's why the upgrade that we're bringing is going to help us to set the direction, and to und🔴erstand the various areas that we believe could play a role in why the car is so poisonous to drive."
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