Mercedes “underperformed” in F1 2024 and “shouldn’t be proud” of their🗹 season, according to former Haas team principal Guenther Steiner.

The Silver Arrows endured another disappointing campaign as both168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell struggled to tame Mercedes’ unpredictable and inconsistent W1🌜5 cღar.

Mercedes did enjoy several high points, claiming a total of four race 𓃲victories, but spent much of the year as the fourth-fastest team and ultimately finished a distant P4 in the constructors’ championship behind McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull. 

“I think Mercedes underperformed,” Steiner told the Red Flags podcast✅. “Obviously, because McLaren, with the same engine, did better. And I think Mercedes would admit to that.

“It was a long time that somebody with a customer engine won the World Championship, but they just did a good job. And I think the regulations helped, being stable for so long, because then, you know your engine package every year, and the engine being frozen, that helps a🎉 lot, that the engine doesn’t change.

“And you adapt your next year’s car always what you’ve gꦅot, and if you know what you’ve got well in advance, that helps you.

“So I think there was a few elements ཧwhich helped the🐬m, but it’s still not easy to do if you’re not a producer of a power unit.

“McꦛLaren can feel great and Mercedes shouldn’🐷t be proud of it what they did.”

Wolff has ‘zero problem’ with defeat to customer

McLaren’s triumph in the constructors’ championship saw the W𒁃oking squad become the first customer team to win the title since Brawn GP i♈n 2009.

But Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff insisted he had no issue with being beaten by a cౠustomer and branded McLaren’s championship win as “a success for Mercedes motorsport”.

Asked post-race in A🔯bu Dhabi whether he was disappointed to have been beaten by a customer team, ওWolff told media including wuqian0821.com: “If we can’t win as a works team I’d much rather be beaten by a customer team.

“I have ze♍ro problem with that, it shows us where the benchmark is.

“There’s no discussion about the performance level of the engine, no diওscussion about driveability of the engine, none of that.

“World champions are our customers, we𒀰 fight on the same terms, if they have better exꦇecution, better drivers then that’s completely fine for us.

“This is a success for M♛ercedes motorsport. It gives us the primary objective to win.”