After enduring their 🤪first winless F1 campaign since 2011 last season, Mercedes are pinning their hopes of returning to the front of the grid on an all-new car concept for their W15 challenger. 

Mercedes have experienced an unprecedented run of poor competitiveness since n🃏ew F1 regulations were introduced at the start of 2022, having got their car design wrong in back-to-back seasons. 

And Brundle believes many changes behind the scenes, including the loss of several key figures in recent years🍌, has played its part in Mercedes’ current slump. 

“I think there's no doubt about it, Mercedes quite clearly are not the 🌱force they were, because they didn't get the꧅ 2022 car right and they didn't fix it for 2023,” Brundle said in a Sky F1 Q&A. 

“And t🐬here has been a lot of personnel movement because they're obviously very attractive people from the era of total domination that they had.

“You see i🐎t in other sports, where a group of people seemingly just couldn't lose, and then all of a sudden, they can't win. It's really odd, and all it needs is a coupl🉐e or three pieces of the jigsaw puzzle changing one way or the other.

“It's a mighty team, but they've got to align their sta🗹rs again, and 2024 is a big year for Mercedes.” 

Brundle was also asked who he thinks out of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton or168澳洲5最新开奖结果: George Russell would be best place♛d to win a w🌳orld championship, if Mercedes produce a car capable of taking the fight to Red Bull in the next two years. 

“I think they're so close, those two, if you look at the st✤ats, but Geor🎐ge had a couple of nightmare races this year. That's a very good question,” he responded. 

"It depends if Lewis maintains his cu𝓀rren🍌t motivation, but it's so close to call. Lewis knows how to do that but George has got youth on his side. I don't know the answer to that, but I definitely wouldn't say, ‘oh, Lewis without a doubt, because he's already a seven-time champion.' That I would absolutely not say.

“Until George is in a championship winning position, we don't know if he's got the head to 🧸cope with it.” 

When asked if he thinks Hamilton will retire if the seven-time wor♑ld champion’s struggles continue in 2024, Brundle replied: “I think if Lewis senses that eighth title is unacღhievable in a reasonable time frame, he'll be thinking of Plan B.”