TOTO WOLFF has promised to “trust the process” as his Mercedes team try to turn their fortunes around.
Mercedes have watched Red Bull dominate the start to the Formula One season with Wolff admitting the team have again made mistakes with this year’s car design.
Toto Wolff (R) hopes to pull a struggling Mercedes team back to the top of the gridRex
AFPWolff’s top driver Lewis Hamilton has been vocal about this year’s car and its lack of performance[/caption]
He has since promised to send the team back to the drawing board with a view to getting back to the top-step of the podium.
Wolff said: “It’s been difficult so far. With the way we developed the car, we were hopeful of sorting out our issues from last year.
“We realised we weren’t coming out of the blocks where we expected to be. Having said that, we don’t feel any sense of entitlement.
“This is the toughest competition in the world, and it wouldn’t be such a fantastic challenge if it was easy.
“Three races into the season, we saw that one team is setting the benchmark now.
“But I believe 100 per cent in our organisation, because our perspective is not always on a single race weekend, not even a single season.
“It’s trying to build our capability so we are successful over multiple years, while recognising the fact you are never going to win every single season, because no sports team has ever done it.
“We need to have a steeper development curve than Red Bull and fundamentally, we want to compete for race wins.
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GettyThe team managed to close some of the gap to Red Bull in Australia[/caption]
AFPRed Bull and Aston Martin are currently above Mercedes in the constructors’ standings[/caption]
“They are setting the benchmark now. We trust in the process and in the people, and there will be setbacks.
“But if the trajectory is up, that’s where we want to be heading.”
With the Azerbaijan Grand Prix next weekend, Mercedes sit third in the constructors’ standings, behind Red Bull and Aston Martin.
The weekend will include the first sprint race of the season, with lights out at 2:30pm on Saturday 29th.
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