Toto Wolff’s brutal assessment of Mercedes’ worst race of F1 2023: "An inexcusable performance"
Mercedes endured their worst race of a difficult 2023 season, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton slipping to eighth, while teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell retired with an overheating po🦋wer unit when running in a low𝐆ly 11th.
It was a result that brought Mercedes b♔ack down to earth after the team appeared to be making encoura🐎ging gains in the first two races of the Americas triple-header.
Compounding Mercedes’ misery, Hamilton finished over a minute behind race-winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.
“An inexcusable performance. There💖’s no words for th𝓰at,” Wolff told Sky.
“That car ꦐfinished second last week and the week before and whatever we did to it was horrible. Lewis survived out there but I can only feel for the two driving such a miserable thing.
“It shows how difficult the car is, i🌠t’s on a knife’s edge. You’ve got to develop that better for next year🐷, because it can’t be that within seven days you’re finishing on the podium, solid, with one of the two quickest cars, and then you’re nowhere and finishing eighth.”
W꧙olff continued: “We are clearly not world champions on sprint race weekends. We do some good work, here on track, to get it done.&nb🌞sp;
“Stil🌊l, that doesn’t explain what went wrong. The car almost drove like it was on three wheels and not on four.”
Asked if the W14 deserves a win before the end of the year, Wolff replied: “This car does🐻n’t deserve a win. We nဣeed to push for the last two races and recover. I think that’s the most important thing.
“And see what we can do in Las Vegas, a totall🐼y different track, and Abu Dhabi. But the performance today was… just💦…. I am just lacking words.”
Mercedes struggled with straightline speed throughout the weekend, as wel🃏l as extreme tyre degradation, with Wolff hinting that the team got their set-up wrong.
“Straighꦆt-line speed was one issue but not the main fac🥂tor,” Wolff explained.
“The main factor was that we couldn’t go around the corner, with the bigger ꦯwing, with the base we needed. We were killing the tyres, just eating them up, within a few lap.”
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