Mercedes 'needed the shock' of being off the pace at the start of the 2023 F1 season in order to decide to change its car concept, according to Wolff.
According to team boss Wolff, Mercedes needed its early season wake-up call of not being competitive to push it towards its new concept.
"I think we just needed the shock at the beginning of the season to understand that this is not going forward, there was not much more performance gain in it," Wolff told Sky F1 after Sunday's result. "And then that shook it up, and then we push forward. There are lead times, you need to design parts. You need to produce them and the team back at base did a mega job that we have all of that on the car."I'm very happy for the hard work that has been done in the UK; in Brixworth and in Brackley. We took some decisions to go in another direction, we changed so many parts that we thought maybe variables that we don't completely understand.
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