It's better than it was for Mercedes, but still a long way to go yet. AustrianGP 🇦🇹 F1
“We are somewhere right in the middle of nowhere but I would say if I tried to pick the positives in the race pace today, if we would have, which we didn’t, start right in the top six probably we could have held on to Max [Verstappen] and not be too far away.”
It would have been a stressful weekend for the 50-year-old who saw both of his cars damaged on the Saturday. The team were left running around for parts and Wolff described the rear wing fitted to George Russell’s car as a “barn door.” He continued: “We’re lacking speed on the straight. I think we are much too draggy, maybe much is too much, but we are draggy.”
“Even more draggy on George’s car. The only rear wing left was a barn door that we put on there but we are too draggy and we seem to be lacking power here. For the first time again, the last few races were really strong, maybe it’s the altitude but it’s something that all the guys will analyse and for sure compensate in the next races.
“It’s actually good because we are starting to see that we’re chipping away performance from the leaders which is important. And we find ourselves in a situation which we have always discussed, which is one day after eight consecutive titles that series is gonna break and we want to make it a blip and not some kind of longer cycle.”
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