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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says his team will do “everything needed” to make sure Red Bull doesn’t “cruise away into the sunset” with the title.
Mercedes had another tough weekend at the Austrian Grand Prix. The deficit to Red Bull in terms of lap-time seems to be around 0.25s, however Toto Wolff is looking on the bright side and says Mercedes has made progress.
“Here is quite a short lap, so two-and-a-half tenths makes a lot of difference,” said the Austrian.
“Silverstone is maybe a bit different. It’s a little step and every little step counts, so we need to make that work.
“We could see that the improvement from last week to here in terms of race pace was actually understanding the car a little bit more.
“There are more clues we have unearthed and I think we will progress and eventually be in the race again.
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“I’m always a sceptical person and [more] half empty than half full, but if you see it from the half-full perspective to build ourselves up, we are one DNF away from being right there in the Constructors’ and the Drivers’ Championships, so this is far from over.
“Morale is good, but we have to be working on these feelings actively because if you come from a run of seven World Championship titles, everything looks like a defeat whatever result you have.
“We finished second and fourth, it’s not the end of the world. You can see how happy the McLaren guys are about their position.
“And I think we need to recognise this is a tough championship, the Formula 1 World Championship, and you can’t expect every single year to cruise away into the sunset.
“We will do everything needed to make Red Bull not do exactly that.”
