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Sky Sports’ Craig Slater says a senior figure from Mercedes said media assessment of where the W14’s stands in the 2023 pecking order has been ‘overly gloomy’.
After Pre-Season Testing, most of the media was very pessimistic when it comes to where Mercedes stands in the 2023 pecking order, with some pundits even putting it in P4, behind Aston Martin.
Sky Sports reporter Craig Slater says a source within Mercedes told him the assessment of the W14 by the media has been ‘overly gloomy’.
“What about Mercedes, a lot of doom and gloom in terms of the reporting of how they got on this week,” Slater said on Sky Sports’ 2023 season preview.
“I was speaking to a senior figure from the team today who said that it was overly gloomy, the assessment of where they’re at.
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“[The senior figure was] saying: ‘Don’t forget, this is testing. We are developing a car not specifically for Bahrain, but to be the best car over the year. We have more parts that come. We expected based on Red Bull’s performance last year to have to start the season behind them, that is possibly’ – and they use the term possibly – ‘where we will start.’
“And they also said: ‘But we do think we’re in a fight a good scrap with Aston Martin and with Ferrari for second place.’
“That would put a much more positive spin on things if that is the case,” the Briton concluded.
