Despite finishing second at Albert Park, Toto Wolff’s team have a mountain to climb and must pursue a new design direction
here can be no illusions for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes as to where they stand in Formula One’s pecking order despite returning their best finish of the season at. Melbourne was their first celebratory moment thus far, but that they revelled in a second place is indicative of the mountain they have to climb. For a team that has dominated F1 for so long this is perhaps their greatest challenge yet.
The nexus of this intense endeavour is the team principal, Toto Wolff. As much as it is a problem for the team to be addressed collectively, the focus will be on how Wolff handles it. It is his toughest assignment since he joined Mercedes in 2013. This was no failing in manufacturing or preparation. They had hit their design targets – it was simply that said targets did not produce the expected performance. The car suffers an unholy combination of being draggy and lacking downforce.
Wolff was honest in admitting how they had gone down a blind alley. “We had the perfect storm last year,” he said. “The car got better and better and then you start to question the concept of the car less than you probably should.”
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