The German manufacturer are still trying to fully understand their troublesome W13𓃲, which has displayed big performance disparities thrꦫoughout the 2022 season. 

After getting to the bottom of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:porpoising issues that pl🥃agued Mercedes’ competitiveness at the start of the year, attention switched to extracting the true potential of the W13, which features a unique sidepod design that differs greatly to thei🌄r rivals’ cars. 

Encouraging progress was made prior to the summer break, with Mercedes enjoying 🍎a streak of podium finishes and securing their first pole position of the season in Hungary. 

But Mercedes endured a miserable qualᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚifying session at Spa-Francorchamps, with Lewis Hamilton ending 🐷up 1.8s off the pace, before George Russell went on to finish fourth in the race. 

Merceꦜdes boss Toto Wolff joked the W13 isn’t going to have “the highest place in the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart” and would be better off “in the caves” after failing to challenge for wins so far this year. 

The inconsistent performance patterns of the W13 has made a decision over Mercedes’ development for 2023 more complicated. 

"It's a very difficult situation because we obviously have a certain concept of a car," Wolꦚff explained. "It's not like we can experiment a lot this year and just simply dial stuff out and test.

"So whatever we decide for next year needs to be carefully evaluated 💛because clearly our data don't give us the results, and don't correlate with the reality. We have massive swing♎s in performance that we can't really get on top of.

"In this very moment, to take a decision for next year, whatever it may be, changing the concept dramatically - how can you be sure that that's the better direction to go because clearly we'💯ll be starting a littﷺle bit way back?

“That is going to be part of the deܫcisions in the upcoming few weeks about what we want to do about i⛦t.”

Mercedes yet to commit to 2023 concept 

Wolff 🌳said Mercedes is yet to com꧋mit to a concept for next season while internal discussions over what to do continue. 

"I༒t's quite difficult to say what is the concept," he said. "Is it the chassis in its current꧋ shape? What is that? Is it weight distribution? Is it where you can put the mechanical and aero balance? Is it the bodywork concept?

"All these ♚different pillars of the car are evaluated and it could mean that some of that goes and some of that stays. And that'𒆙s what we're looking at the moment.”

One-lap pace has been a꧅ weakness for Mercedes compared to their performance over a race distance, with struggles to get tyres up to temperature - particularly in cooler conditions like qualifying in Belgium -🉐 further hindering the true competitiveness of the W13. 

Wolf♈f admitted Mercedes’ fa♋ilure to pinpoint a specific reason for their performance swings has only made the process trickier. 

“Today we are getting it wrong and the non-correlation in various areas is causing us to not perform,” he sa𒐪id. 

“Now, maybe there is a si﷽ngle thing that overshadows everything and we are not doing♛ it justice to question every part of the car.

“Are the tyres something that we fundamentally don’t understand and all the restꦆ is good? Or is the aero messing it up? Or the mechanical balance? That is so difficult to dissect."