Toto Wolff taunts Christian Horner by saying Red Bull ‘can put a little sticker’ on updated Mercedes F1 car
After making a poor start to the 2023 F1 season, Mercedes have accepted they need to abandon their unconventional sidepo👍d concept in🎶 order to cut the huge deficit to Red Bull and return to the front of the grid.
Wolff hinted at the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Saudi Arabian Grand Prix that Mercedes’ flawed W14 car will look168澳洲5最新开奖结果: “very different” in five-to-seven races’ time and confirmed the team was now focused on “one design philoso🍬phy”.
The admission has led to speculation that Mercedes are dev🐼eloping a replica version of the side♍pod design that features on Red Bull’s dominant RB19, or Aston Martin’s AMR23.
Asked if that 🌸is Mercedes’ plan, Wolff joked to Sky: “I don’t know, you can call it [a] Red Bull or Aston Martin concept, [but] at the end, if it looks like 🌼an English double-decker bus, we would do it if it was fast.”
He ඣadded: “Put a little sticker, Red Bull, if they want to have it on.
“It’s just about raw performa🍨nce. We have no dogma on who invented it.🌼”
Pressed onꩲ how long it will be before the modified W14 is introduced, Wolff replied: “We are making big elephant steps. It will be a long time before it’s adequate to challenge Red Bull, but it’s a super fun journey to climb back.”
Wolff insisted Mercedes are working “flat-out” to reduce the gap ꧂to Red Bull.&ꦦnbsp;
“The question is, what is your benchmark? If you look at the Red Bulls♎, they’re just so quick, that I think we understand the car more is what I meant,” he explaine🍨d.
“I’m looking optimistic in the future because we just need to put it in a different window. We’re changing the bodywork of the ൲car, how t꧟he floor works, all of these things mechanically.
“We’re look🗹ing at certain areas, and the team in Brackley is just flat-out and that is really nice to see that we can monetise on the Su🃏ndays on that.”
And Wolff does not believe Mercedes’ recovery bid will be hamstrung by the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 cost cap.
“It’s not such a big probleಞm because we a♊re not developing two different concepts because we’re not quite sure,” he said.
“We are going one direction fully committed, so that doesn’t chang🍃e anything.
“Obviously if you are one second behind, it’s a long way to catch up. But we are banking onℱ that logic, let’s see what the reality will show.”
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