Toto Wolff says F1 2022 less painful than controversial 2021 title loss for Mercedes
After winning eight consecutive constructors’ world championships, Mercedes’ run of F1 success came to an end in 2022 amid a hugely challenging campaign with 🔯their underperforming W13 car.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell took Mercedes’ only victory of the season in Brazil and finished fourth in the drivers’ standings, 35 points and two places ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, who recorded his lowest finish in the championship and failed to win a grand prix f🗹or the first time in his 16-year F1 career.
But Wolff says Mercedes’ lack of competitiveness was much less painful to endure than last year’s title loss in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when Hamilton was denied a record-breaking eighth world title in controversial circumstances following a mishandled168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Safety Car restart, which enabled 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to snatch the crown.
“Last year, without any doubt, because last year was strong,” Wolff replied when asked which experience was more painful. “And how it ended, within a couple of seconds, we knew that🐓 that's it.
“And it's out of control; out of your hands. And losing control, that was the first time since I was an adolescent. And, in my sense of faiꦡrness, that was totally against my values.
“But this year was not as peaky in terms of emotions, because we knew fღrom the get-go at the beginning that the car was just not good enough.”
Wolff insist꧋ed Mercedes’ struggles in 2022 have been easier to come to terms with because the team 𓄧is responsible for not getting the new era of F1 regulations right.
“I think we understood it slowly but surely,” he explained. “We would peel one layer of the onion off and you think you solved the problem, but thඣen it is the next one♉ and the next one.
“Then we started to correlate where this car, that was really not a good one, could ไperform. And we tried to concentrate on these tracks, knowing that the more difficult ones lik꧂e Abu Dhabi were, in a way, damage limitation.
“So it was our doing. Last year Abu Dhabi wasn't our doing. We knew🐎 we got it wrong. We're conscious that others did a better job. And this is an absolute meritocracy, how this season panned out🦋. So that is okay.”
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