Mercedes suffered their worst F1 season since 2013 as their streak of eight consecutive constructors’ championships came to an end after getting caught🌞 out by the 🥂sport’s new era of aerodynamic regulations. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell claimed the team’s only victory in Brazil while teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton failed to win a race for the first time in his career as Mercedes slipped to third in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:constructors’ standings, behind Red Bull and Ferrari. 

Mercedes spent much of the season trying to fix168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: porpoising and bouncing problems that plagued their ജcar, and had to se🌳ttle with being the third-fastest team for most of the year. 

Asked how Mercedes failed to see the porpoising problem coming while other teams anticipated it, Wolff told the podc✨ast: “Because we got it wrong. Even the best people can get it wroꦇng.

"My assumption of why a team would function - that I learned back in the Williams days - is that you have to have the right infrastructure, the financial resource, good drivers, a powerful engine,🐬 the right organisation, and enough time to put it all together.

“These ingredients would make sure that you are competitive. Winning can be something else, and winning a c🍎hampionship is a different thing, but we have all of that.

“We haven’t suddenly taken a stupid pill [and gone from] winning the constructors’ 🐎championship last December and then in March being nowhere. 

“It is very easy - we got the concept wrong. We underestimated the effect when runn♉ing the car very low and others did a better job.

“Whether they knew the effect from past days or they were simply more focused on this particula♚r area of car behaviour, I d🥀on’t know.

“But in the or♔ganisation, nobody is shy to say that we have done a bad job here. It is very easy.

“Theဣre is no hiding, there 🎐is no seeking for an explanation of how we ended up there. All of us are saying that we got this very wrong and others got it very right.”

Wolff admitted Mercedes’ lack of c𒅌om💮petitiveness in 2022 took some getting used to, despite the team bracing themselves for the inevitable day their run of F1 dominance ended. 

“In terms of performance, you can say after eight consecutive constructors’ titles, coming out of the blocks being half a secꦜond off – and I’m being rather on the optimistic side – was certainly something you needed to get used to,” Woꦏlff explained. 

“We talked about it these last eight years, how we would react if that were to happen – how wou🦩ld we cope with losing? Inevitably we knew that one day it’s going to happen, and here we are.

“I’m particularly proud of the team, how we have reওcovered through the season, because it wasn’t a one-race blip. It wasn’t that there was a clear trajectory that was going up only; we had good races and then we fell back. 

“At the end, I think we’re much closer to our rivals🌌, the front-running cars, than we were at the🥂 beginning.”