Ralf Schumacher questions Mercedes’ Mike Elliott - “technical director can’t change his mind overnight”
Team principal Toto Wolff admitted before the first race of 2023 that the concept of the W14 must be reconsidered, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton insisted he became aware of its problems when he first drove it, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell explained that new ideas are already ꧒being worked on to develop the below-par machine.
But ex-F1 driver Schumacher, whose brother 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher ended his legendary career at Mercedes and whose nephew 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mick Schumacher is currently their thir💙d driver, predicts significant changes in personnel within the team.
“There has to be a dispute,” he told ahead of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
“Somehow the technical director must have managed to convince Toto Wolff that the🌳 full strength of the concept can be p💮layed out. And Toto, what should he do? He has to believe in his technical team.”
Schumacher said about Bahrainℱ: “The tension was clear to see🧜."
And he said about structural💞 changes within Mercedes: “I wouldn’t be surprised if the pecking order changes now. That also happened at Aston Martin. Andrew Green was transferred, they got [Dan Fallows] from Red Bull.
“And now something is g💛oing to happen at Mercedes.
“Because, I’ll say it again🐻, with a technical director who believes that a concept works and pulls so hard for it, you can’t ch𝕴ange your mind overnight. It’s problematic.
“My feeling is that something is changing.”
Mercedes have repeatedly insisted they have a🌠 'no-blame culture', with Russell explaining: “When it comes to car concepts, when it comes to decisio⭕ns of where a team of 2000 people are going to be heading, it’s never one person directing that.”
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