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Toto Wolff says Mercedes will “need to experiment every single race”, and “not only on Friday, because our performance seems to get worse throughout the weekend”.
After Mercedes’ disappointing performance in the first three races of the 2024 season, Toto Wolff admits the team will need to use every session and every race to experiment with their car, in hopes of finding a way to tap into the potential they believe it still has.
“I think we are coming to a point now that we probably need to experiment every single race,” the Austrian said.
“Not only on Friday, because our performance seems to get worse throughout the weekend.
“We’re good on Friday, then we are good on some of the sessions on Saturday. But, the more grip we have, the faster it goes, the more we reach the performance ceiling of the car.
“And our data shows that it’s not the ceiling.”
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Toto added he is convinced that the car has a lot more to give than what they were able to extract so far.
“I haven’t lost that feeling that there is a good car, because there are sessions throughout the weekend, and also the last two ones, where we are absolutely right up there in terms of performance, and then we lose it again.
“[F]P3, [we were] within a tenth of everybody else. Quali, 7th, and then race pace was never there this weekend.
“You can see that McLaren and Ferrari, they were going seven, eight tenths quicker on Friday already, and we had no answer to that,” Wolff concluded.
