Sky Sports F1's Martin Brundle says Mercedes are confused about ‘Diva 2.0’ car and 'surviving' 2023 season

Despite bringing a fairly sizeable upgrade to their underperfor🍸ming and revised W14 car, Mercedes failed to take a notable step forward in competitiveness across the Belgian Grand❀ Prix weekend.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished fourth in Sunday’s grand prix while teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell came home sixth, with the Mercedes duo split by Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin.&nꦉbsp;
“They will be very frustrated. Their car is on a knife-edge to set🦄 up, to understand, to drive,” Brundle said on Sky’s coverage.
“Then they suddenly pr𝔉omise a great result, get something special then go to the next race with upgrades, and fall off the pace.
"I would imagine they are confused with this car. Diꦐva 2.0, I think t⭕hey call it.
“They are surviving the season, as they did last year, and making the best of a bad situation because they ar꧃e a great team.”

However, fellow Sky F1 pundit and former W Series racer Naomi Schiff feels the global p💙icture is not so bad for Mercedes.&nb💝sp;
“Despite Fernando’s great recovery today, Lewis is in a good position [to claim P3 in the drivers’ st💎andings],” she said. “We had a pole position from Lewis.
“Even though the global picture is not the🔥m on the podium at each race event, they have a car that on a Sunday really does💝 perform.
“Today t𒁃he bigger concern was the Ferrari😼s, they had fantastic pace in the dry and the wet, their car is in a window where it’s really working.
“Lewis was 2-3s behind Charles the whole race. He didn’t have enough in the end it ꦑchase him down.
“There’s enough to be positive about. They have a car, unlikཧe other teams who are very track-specific, they are consistently there or thereabouts.♏ Something to build on, for sure.”

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