Open letter from Toto Wolff after Mercedes’ bad start

Mercedes It is between his eyebrows for this 2023 to end all the evils of his car from last year and make the leap expected by a great team that will once again fight for world, especially after the good ending of the campaign they conducted in the previous course. However, the beginning of the Bahrain It’s not good, with a car that has no rebound, but far from Red Bull’s performance in a lap and those Milton Keynes and Aston Martin at race speed, with additional wear and tear. so, Toto Wolff addressed the fans of Mercedes through the team’s website with an open letter full of illusion and hope that things will improve for them.

Toto has confirmed that they will bring small improvements to their W14 in Jeddah which, while “they will not serve to change the game”, they hope they will serve to improve on a track where they are focused on continuing to evaluate behavior. of their car due to the different characteristics of the drawn compared to Bahrain.

Toto Wolff’s full letter:

“Our performance in Bahrain did not reach our expectations, but this is the position we are in and we are going full force with the car, understanding and trying to put it in a better place. That’s an exciting challenge for all of us.

“From Bahrain, we had open and honest discussions where we started planning our match. In the short term, we will leave no stone unturned in pursuit of performance.

“In the longer term, we focus our development to determine how to get to the front. I can already feel the strength and determination in the factory and I know I will continue.”

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“Anything can happen in motorsport, so we will work in Jeddah to maximize every bit of our performance, chasing every point, every position and every millisecond.”

“That is one of the great strengths of our driver line-up with Lewis and George. We are runners and we give everything we have every time we go out on track”.

“This weekend in Saudi Arabia, we will know more about the W14, its features and its limitations. It gives a different test in Bahrain, and it will be interesting to see how the car reacts.”

“We’re bringing some small developments to the car: they won’t be a game changer, but they can start moving us in the right direction.

“And we will push as hard as we can to create opportunities and hopefully give us a better account of ourselves than Bahrain.”