Toto Wolff teases Mercedes W14 F1 car will "look very different" in five-to-seven races time
Following another unsuccessful start to the new season, Wolff has accepted 𒊎Mercedes have got their unique car concept “wrong” and declaredไ the team must change their design direction in order to improve.
Mercedes’✅ senior management, drivers and engineering staff were invol🦂ved in a crunch meeting to devise an action plan for recovery after the team’s lacklustre display at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
And team pr💜incipal 💫Wolff says Mercedes have now agreed on “one design philosophy” to focus their efforts on.
"ꦑThe question is what do you mean by a Plan B car?” Wolff told Sky at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
"I think that the car is going to look very different in five, six or seven races based on the decisions that we have taken and ꩵthe development direction that we have embarked on.”
W꧃olff insisted there is no “engineering arrogance” at the team and revealed that former Mercedes chairman and three-time world champion Niki Lauda would have advised Mercedes to copy the design of Red Bull, who have made a dominant start to the season.
"For Niki it would have been very simple, because simplicity is what brings you to the best decisi💃on and I know exactly what he would have said,” explained Wolff.
"'Our car looks very different, let's make it like the others and o💞ptimise it. We have a great team, we have great technology and infrastructure, we can do it much better than the others, so why don't we just get on with it?
"Things are very simple always. You can always cut all the nonsense out, and at the end the simple decisions in life, which are very often instinctive decisions added together with data that supports them, and this is ꩵhow Niki operated. Don't overcomplicate things, get the ༒basics right."
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