Toto Wolff did not mince his words with Mercedes' gap to the frontrunners in qualifying. FrenchGP 🇫🇷 F1
“I think we knew once we got the new tyres on and we are driving the car in anger a little bit, that we are going to be there as a third force like we’ve been all season,” Wolff told Sky Sports F1.It was then put to Wolff that Mercedes’ race weekend has so far been “messy”, mentioned that they had tested different rear wings on the W13s during FP3.
Wolff responded by claiming Mercedes were in a way “freestyling” with their approach, since the race weekend was not living up to their expectations. “You can see when you’re a little bit on the back foot, your expectations are on a certain level for the race weekend and it doesn’t come together, a kind of freestyling starts,” said Wolff.
“And with us it was mainly experimenting with rear wing levels and also tyre temperatures. But at the end, the overall package is just not quick enough and can see that.”It was, though, pointed out by Wolff that Hamilton would have been P5 had it not been for Carlos Sainz’s grid penalty., knowing he would drop to the back of the pack.“Yeah, immense job,” said Wolff in agreement on Hamilton’s qualifying showing.
“If we have Sainz there it is P5, but still a great, great job. He probably has extracted more than the car has at the moment.”
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