“We have been on a positive trajectory since the last three races and everything seems to make a lot more sense. The stopwatch will tell us.”
Early in the season, Mercedes seemed to struggle to match simulation data with the car’s performance on the actual track. When asked whether these aspects have now been resolved, Wolff provided insight into how the team is set to address the issues.
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“There is no such thing as a panacea in Formula 1, so it was a constant struggle to figure out what was going wrong,” he explained.
“I know everyone is tired of this response. But you can’t reverse engineer the performance of a car and say, ‘We’re looking at Red Bull, this is the car we want.’
“We really have to try to solve the problem. There seemed to be no correlation between the tunnel and the track, the car was difficult to drive, and the bouncing occurred again. “I then clearly indicated what the missing piece of the puzzle was and put that piece in.”
