F1, Wolff: “It will be difficult for Mercedes to fight for the title”

Accustomed in recent years to dominate, the Mercedes he experienced a difficult 2022 but there will be suffering in the next season as well. Toto Wolff, team principal of the Frecce d’Argento, does not want to delude the fans despite the progress made in the second half of the year which culminated in George Russell’s success in Brazil. Mercedes closed the Constructors’ World Championship in third place and to return to the top we will have to deal with two teams like Red Bull and Ferrari against which there is a complicated gap to fill. “I usually look at the glass half empty – his words in the podcast ‘Beyond The Grid’ – Trying to be rational, we must recognize that Red Bull has been dominant for almost the whole season, otherwise they wouldn’t have won 15 races or maybe even more . It will be difficult to have a faster development path than theirs or Ferrari itself. I believe in the organization and basically ours was not a problem of lack of aerodynamic load but of making that aerodynamic load work on the car. With what we have learned “And thanks to the values ​​we have in the team, I think we’ll still be stronger next season. We hope to be able to win races and fight for the title, but it’s not a given.”

Helmut Markoa Red Bull strongman, said he expected a competitive Mercedes in 2023. “He knows this world and if he says it, you have to accept it. But he said at the beginning of the season that we would solve our problems and we didn’t succeed. Regardless of that what others say, whether it’s positive or negative, we have to do our best to be competitive again”, says Wolff.