Toto Wolff learns lessons from Michael Schumacher exiting Ferrari with Lewis Hamilton's future
Schumacher won five F1 titles in a row between 2000 and 2004 but Ferrari’s reign ended abruptly w꧅hen the leg🌳endary driver, Ross Brawn and Jean Todt all left - today, the team hasn’t had a drivers’ champion in 15 seasons.
Mercedes reigned similarly with seven drivers’ titles in a row (six for Hamilton) but, after Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen won back-to-back championships, Wolff wants to arrest their decܫline quickly.
"Of course we are talking about it,” Wolff said. “We are analysing: ‘What are the reasons t𝓡he teams that dominated in the past suddenly lost performance?’
"You can see with Ferrari, they lost the whole top leadership and a key driver. I think that's something you can t🌱race back.
"With Red Bull, iꦑt was a fundamental situation that the power unit regulation changed upside down. So fundamental paramet💞ers changed.
"We are looking at that൩ and thinking: ‘We had better be careful’.
“A season has gone by in a heartb🐓eat and we can't let it happen to look back at the end of next season and the one after, saying: 'That's bitter'."
Wolff wants Mercedes to "avoid the mistakes" and added: "We hav♌e the same organisation, the same capability, the same funding. The other ꧋pillars are still in place.”
Hamilton ܫdid not win a single race in 2022 for the first season in his esteemed career. He is locked on seven titles, joint all-time highest with Schumacher, but ꦓaged 37 he must overhaul Verstappen to claim an eighth.
He finished sixth in the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: F1 standings, his worst-ever result.
"We are 100 per cent sure that this was a year that was necessary for us to re-energise and re-moti꧟vate the team," Wolff♐ said.
"This has again brought us down to the ground, made us appreciate how you win and also understand🦄 how difficult it is to recover.
"We've started the 100m sprint 10m behind everyone. So we've just got to run faster. This organi꧅sation has all that is needed to run ꩲfaster.
"There's no fear, but we need to be sharp.
"I'm a glass half-emᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚpty man. I'm not sure at all we can bounce back to a position𝕴 where we can fight for championships.
"You need to acknowledge that the competition is strong but we will do everything in our power to set our objectives and try to beat t💧hem."
James was a sports journalist at S🍃ky Sports for a decade covering e𓂃verything from American sports, to football, to F1.
