Toto Wolff has explained his plan afꦛter three crashes impact🐟ed the car parts that Mercedes have at their disposal.

George Russell crashed in Friday p✨ractice at the F1 Mexico City Grand Prix, a week after crashing in Texas.

Kimi Antone🍨lli’s crash during FP1 in Monza also did some damage.

Mercedes are now under pressure to stay within the $135m budget for the season, with 🍃fou൲r rounds remaining.

“Kimi’s crash in Monza, George’s crash in Austin, George’s crash here,” Mercedes team principal said to media,🔥꧃ including wuqian0821.com, in Mexico.

“I love 🌜a driver to push, and I’d rather crash and we know what the car is capable of doing than not.

“In cost cap land, that’s a tricky situation, so the✱se three shunts put us on the back foot.

“Certain🅺ly the one that h📖appened [on Friday in practice] was massive.

“We had to oꦑpt for a completely new chassis. That is a tremendous hit on the cost cap.

“And we probably have 🅘to dial down on wha꧟t we put on the car.”

Mercedes must react quickly for this🌠 weekend’s F﷽1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Wolff explained: “We will be having two upgrade packages i🌟n Brazil, two floors, but that’s basically it.

“There’s nothing else that’s going to come.

“We have certain limitations on parts where we need to be creative, how we’re managing this, and c💦ertainly☂ there is an impact.

“Therꦯe is an impact on how many development parts we 𒉰can put on the car, because the answer is zero.”

Wolff 𒁃was quizzed about whether Lewis Hamilton and Russell could run different 𒈔spec floors in Brazil, or whether they’d run the same version.

“I’m always open minded about wha🐠t the drivers ꦉthink,” Wolff said.

“I’m certain that George is going to go on the new, and Lewis may want to back-to-back the old floor now in Brazil. We will certainl🍌y talk with him about what his preference is.♔”

R🗹ussell, after his crash in Texas, ran an older version of the๊ W15 in Mexico.

Mercedes ♕avoided further damage in Mexico when Hamilton and Rus🔴sell jostled for on-track position.

But Russell came home with a c꧃ompromised front wing, in fifth, a place behind Hamilton who was running the newer spec of the W15.

Wolff said about Russell’s damage: “When overtaking Oscar Piastri out of the pits, he hit a bump and came very close, turbulence mi🐲ght have played a role, and one of the main front flaps collapsed.

“So it was a tremendous loss of downforce. I think in ܫthe high speed, it was 20 po🅰ints.

“He then kind of drove around it well, but obviously the more your tyres are being hit, the mor🙈e, the impact on lap time is exponential.

“So how can I explain the difference in pace? At the end of tꦦhe hard, you saw a difference.

“So two reasons. First I think George drove very well all weekend, and on the o♋ther side, that maybe something in the update package that maybe doesn’t, causes… something that we don’t understand.

“Because we had two massive crashes in the same corner in Austin. But then we had a crash in the o🍸ld car t𒁏oo.

“Th꧂ese cars are so on the knife-edge that it will be an interesting experiment in Brazil to see whether there is high-speed instability or a low speed factor.

“So I don’t think we can just extrapolate that one 𒈔is better than the oܫther.”

What's the plan for Brazil?

Wolff was questioned about why Mercedes regularly look competitive on Fridays only for theꦓir ri🦂vals to gradually pull away on Saturdays and Sundays.

He sai✅d: “I don’t think we are running lighter, I dꦍon’t think we are attacking more.

“I think it’s a batt♑le all season that we seem not to be able to extract more 💎performance when the track grips up.

“Some of the uglier behaviour comes out, the three-wheeling, th🌄e bouncing, the instability when a car starts to really pick up speed in the high speed, is a pattern𝄹 that we’ve seen.

“That is something that we need to get on top of. We have a dire🙈ction for next year, but obviously we see the glass half empty at the moment.

“That's why we need to op♏timise those last four races, what is it we can learn.🍸”