Mercedes F1 boss George Russell says ‘crying and grumpy’ won’t make the car faster when it comes to the W13’s performance.
Ahead of the 2022 season, when new F1 regulations were introduced, F11 managing director Ross Brawn warned last year that one team might make a mistake.
But no one expected the team to become Mercedes.
The Mercedes F1 team didn’t do the W13 entirely wrong, but it was certainly the most affected by porpassing/bouncing in the early part of the season, with teams sacrificing downforce to minimize the impact. was forced to
The team believes it has resolved the issue in the past few races, with Mercedes F1 trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin saying it is “no longer” an issue.
The next challenge facing the Mercedes F1 team is finding a way to restore lost downforce without recreating the porpothing.
George Russell believes the Mercedes F1 team can do it right.
“You can’t cry or be grumpy regarding the overall performance,” George Russell told the BBC.
“It’s not productive and it doesn’t make the car faster.”
“So you have to go out on track and make the most of every tricky situation, be constructive and push the team into the right areas.”
“The kind of journey we’re on right now is exciting. As soon as we realize there’s a lot of challenges with this new car, we’re really in the business of ‘how can we make this car go faster?’ I started working on
“We’re not trying to make it, say, easier to drive. We just want it to go as fast as possible. And what do we need to do to achieve that?”
“We’ve worked hard as a team. We’ve tried so many different things. Maybe we tried too many things at once. A complete analysis of everything we’ve done in a short period of time. It was difficult to
The 24-year-old George Russell’s confidence in the Mercedes F1 team is there, believing his recent string of podiums shows that a first victory is “definitely a realistic ambition”.
“I really believe that,” says George Russell.
“The only thing I don’t know is what my rivals will bring to my car. It’s a relative gain. And if we find a lap time of 1 second, if they find 0.8 seconds, they still don’t know us. in front of
“But there’s no reason why we can’t close the gap. We don’t know if we’ll have the absolute fastest car this year, but there will always be times when we can fight for victory.”
“There were probably two occasions where we might have fought for victory if things had played out a little differently: Silverstone and Barcelona, and we’re only making the car faster. ”
“We are far from our maximum potential and that makes us a little optimistic.”
Mercedes sits third in the Constructors’ Championship with 304 points, just 30 points behind second-placed Ferrari.
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