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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says the team “wanted to tick some boxes to understand if there is a limitation we haven’t spotted, and I think there is”.
After a disappointing Japanese Grand Prix weekend, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said the team believes they are on the right track to solve the issue that is holding the W15 back.
However, there is a “limitation” they have yet to get to the bottom of.
“The car is so complex for us where we put it in terms of the aero balance and the mechanical balance,” the Austrian said.
“These two need to correlate and we have followed a certain trajectory over the last years and keep turning in circles and came to the point of saying: ‘Ok, we’ve got to do something different here because we are measuring downforce in the sensors and pressure tabs and it’s telling us we have 70 points more downforce in a particular corner in Melbourne than we had last year but in lap time it’s not faster in kph.’
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“So it doesn’t make any sense. So where is the limitation? We wanted to tick some boxes to understand if there is a limitation we haven’t spotted, and I think there is.”
Asked to elaborate further, Toto said:
“We have measured the downforce and it’s there, but we are not able to extract the lap time out of it but it should and that simulations show us. And it’s not trivial.
“I see you looking at me like, what the hell? Now imagine what we think,” he concluded.
