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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says the team’s “ambition is to win races this year, and I wouldn’t want to let that ambition go, certainly not for next year”.
It’s obvious that Mercedes did not start the 2024 season on the right foot, and at this point it is unrealistic to expect that they can challenge Red Bull this year.
While many believe the team’s best chance will come when the new F1 regulations get introduced in 2026, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he still wants to get back to winning this year.
“If your expectation is to eventually race for wins and championships then you can say we are in a bit of a no man’s land because Max and Red Bull are far ahead, and we are in this bunch,” the Austrian said.
“It is not satisfying for any team to be fighting for P2, P3 or P4. If I was to look from a purely sporting point of view, P1 is what matters, not P2, P3 or P4, but this is the reality we are facing at the moment.
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“We’re trying to make the best of this new reality, and that is to beat our competitors, whilst acknowledging that somebody is just doing a better job and setting a benchmark that we eventually need to set again ourselves.
“Our ambition is to win races this year, and I wouldn’t want to let that ambition go, certainly not for next year.
“In ’26 there’s a big reset which certainly provides the most realistic opportunity for any other team to beat Red Bull.
“But there are one and three-quarter seasons before that, and I don’t want to go through much more suffering in the next, whatever it is, 18 months.
“I just hope for highlights and a trajectory that’s going upward,” Wolff concluded.
