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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says he hopes the team “will have done enough to give ourselves a shout of being in the championship fight in both championships”.
During his appearance of the Performance People podcast, Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison revealed it was hard for him to accept Mercedes’ drop from a benchmark team, to an outfit struggling to get back in the fight.
“When a team has been, as we were, on a very high plateau for quite a large number of years, for quite a long period of time, and then takes a dip, it’s very disorientating,” the Briton said.
“It’s very unpleasant to suddenly feel that what you had previously felt about yourselves as a group, the foundations of that have been loosened by the reality of the stopwatch and being beaten by other teams.
“It shakes the confidence of an organisation, and it also puts a lot of very short-term pressures on a company that’s been used to thinking further ahead.”
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Allison added he hopes the team is now in a good place to once again return to the top.
“I hope that we have put in place enough of a programme of work that we have put ourselves in with a shout to be back to winning ways.
“Does that mean winning a race? Does that mean winning a championship? In my head, it’s only ever about championships. That’s what F1 is. It’s a constructors’ and a drivers’ championship.
“So, I hope we will have done enough to give ourselves a shout of being in the championship fight in both championships,” Allison concluded.
