Toto Wolff dropped a hint that even Adrian Newey would struggle to solve Mercedes’ probl🐻ems in Miami.

George Russell🌜 qualified seventh and Lewis Hamilton eighth for the F1 Miami Grand Prix.

They both failed to score a point in Sat🌊urday's sprint race.

Once more, both Mercedes driver🧸s gave worrying verdicts about the competitiveness of the W15.

Mercedes team principal Wolff was asked about his interest in Newey, Red Bull’s outgoing chief technic🔯al officer who is seemingly up for grabs.

“He is an incredible ဣengineer," Wolff said to .

"But at the moment, eve🅠n the greatest magician would proꦡbably have a hard time solving our problems."

Mercedes, like every other top team in F1, is expec🌠ted to hold an interest in Newey’s next move.

Newey, widely c🌌onsidered the greatest-ever Formula 1 car designer, will depart Red Bull next year.

Ferrari are seemingly best-placed to bring him on board. Newey would find Hamilton in re🌟d next yea▨r.

Hamilton offered a bleak review of his qualifying on Saturd🙈ay.

"For ꦿus to be eighth tenths off is tough,” he said.

“We are fighting the Haas and I don't really know if that'🐭s the true speed of our♒ car or whether it's the tyres.”

Russell said afterꩵ qualifying: 💮“When we look at the data we understand why we’re in the position we are right now.

“We’ve gone from this extreme to that extreme now so we’ve go💞t to rewind and find ourselves in a halfway house.”

Mercedeꦐs brought a revised floor upgrade to Miami.

Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin explained: "Over the next four or five races, there are ot🐼her developments that we're looking at to try and get the car handling a bit more consistently, and a bit less tricky to work with. But that's all coming in the next few [races].

"We are just behind on development, which iജs one of the areas we need to i♉mprove.

“But also just getting the car to be a bit more versatile across a range of tracks will be a ve♊ry important focus for us."