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Toto Wolff says Mercedes “never had this in 12 years that we were able to develop, design, manufacture, bring it to the track and have the quality in the pieces”.
After a difficult start to the 2024 season, for the past four races Mercedes has been rapidly improving, and the team ultimately managed to win the Austrian Grand Prix.
They did however win only because Max Verstappen and Lando Norris crashed while fighting for the lead, which Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff acknowledged afterwards.
“On pace, we were the third-quickest car,” the Austrian said.
“And we’ve been this way the last three weekends and that is very encouraging to see that upward trend and the consolidation of the trend.
“But racing happens on Sunday. Sometimes we’ve been on the receiving end and today we’ve benefited from the incident at the front.
“It’s just good to have that win in the pocket this year. It means there’s four teams that won races this year, and it’s been 2023 where we haven’t won a race since 2011.
“That is good to know and certainly big momentum now in the team to go to a point where we are able on real performance to fight for the win. And I think we will be.”
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Wolff then praised his team for an unprecedented push to bring upgrades.
“I think we are bringing upgrades now almost to every race. The factory is running on full steam.
“We’ve never had this in 12 years that we were able to develop, design, manufacture, bring it to the track and have the quality in the pieces. I’ve seriously never seen that pace.
“Every single race we have brought upgrades. Every single race, we will bring upgrades and I hope by the summer break we can make another step.
“Now, everyone else is working hard, but if we can eat a bit away at that gap… I think it was 15 seconds in 70 laps, so two-tenths [a lap]… And that’s okay.
“That’s a P3 and hopefully, if we can half it, we can race in front,” Wolff concluded.
