Mercedes have a “fundamental” issue with the design of their 2024 F1 c🤡ar which they cဣurrently “don’t understand”, according to Toto Wolff.

It was another disappointing showing from Mercedes at the second round of the season in Saudi Arabia as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton finished sixth and ninth respectively.

After the race, seven-🌳time world champion Hamilton claimed Merc🐬edes still need to make “big changes” to the W15, which was significantly revamped over the winter.

A frustrated Hamilton said it felt “like I was in a different category” compared to Mercedes’ rivals as he lamented his car’s lack of performance through Jeddah’s🗹 high-speed corners.

“There is something which we don't understand," Wolff acknowledged. “We are 🌟quick everywhere else pretty much.

“We know tha🎉t we have a smaller💧 rear wing, we're compensating what we're losing through the corners. But it's just at high speed where we're losing all the lap time.

"I think that's a biggi🌞e. Thꦬere’s only so much you can tune here.

"Our simulations point us in a dir꧃ection and this is the kind of set-up range that we then choose, where you put the right 🍷rear wing on.

“🌱I think you'll gain a few tenths or not if you get the set-up right or wrong, but there's not a massive corridor of performance.

“It's more a fundament💧al thing, that we 🐟believe that the speed should be there. We measure the downforce but we don't find it in lap time.”

But Wolff remains confident that Mercedes can find a swift remeౠdy fo𝓡r their current headache.

"It's been two years that there is something we need to spot, and that's the thing to unlock. We⭕ have just got to work,” he added.

"It's not through lack of tryin🦋g. We've&🥂nbsp;pushed so hard and we're going to give it a massive, massive go now in the next week, with more data to understand.

"We are going to c🌳ome back to Melbourne strong. We are on a mission on this one. And I am 100% sure that we ꧟are going to unlock that performance gap."