In Bahrain, the head of Mercedes AMG Toto Wolff admitted that the team made a mistake in choosing the concept of a new car, but is not giving up the fight this season.
Building a new chassis on a tight budget and schedule is nearly impossible, but Wolff said the team is ready to scrap the concept and explore all possible options.
Toto Wolff: “I don’t think this chassis will be competitive. We did our best over the winter, but now we have to regroup, sit down with engineers who have absolutely no design dogmas, no “sacred cows”, and decide which direction to go in order to win races again.
I’m sure we can win this season, but for that you have to make certain decisions. There comes a time when the stopwatch starts and you realize the car isn’t good enough. She never lacked downforce.
We have all the ingredients for success: people and infrastructure, we have won the Constructors’ Championship eight years in a row, but last year we made a mistake. We thought we could fix the mistake by keeping the old concept of the car, but we couldn’t. Now we need to turn our attention to what we think could be a step in the right direction.
We’re collecting information this weekend. We judged the difference with other cars, according to GPS, we saw where we were inferior, and where we looked good. Now all this needs to be addressed. Whether we put wider side pontoons or increase the efficiency of thin pontoons are details. The most important thing is that we have to choose a different path.”
Source: F1 News
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