'Toto Wolff always has elegant words and phrases to move the story on, but it must be wearing very thin for him.'
Martin Brundle says for the third year running, Mercedes “haven’t hit the sweet spot” with the former F1 driver noting the W15 is the “most difficult” car to drive.
But with Mercedes making major set-up changes ahead of Saturday’s running, he felt in FP3 that the car was “great” only to be knocked out of qualifying in Q2 when he was 11th on the timesheet. “Just another inconsistency within the car, it really messes with the mind,” he lamented to Sky Sports. “Team boss Toto Wolff always has elegant words and phrases to move the story on and refocus for the next race or season, but it must be wearing very thin for him to see the lack of progress.
“When I look at the positives, and that is we took many potential root causes out of the equation, we went through about our suspension, we weren’t sure about the stiffness of our gearbox carrier, we had a vibrating steering rack, and all of those things have disappeared.
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