168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton secured an unexpected second and third behind Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen as Mercedes produced thei✅r most competitive qualifying display of the season in Melbourne. 

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Verstappen edged Russell to🍃 pole position by 0.236s with Hamilton winding up 0.136s further adrift in third.&♏nbsp;

It follows a torrid 𝔍start to 2023 in which Mercedes have been blown away by Red Bull and beat🔴en by customer team Aston Martin at the opening two rounds in Bahrain and Saudi Arabian. 

Mercedes’ poor performance in the first qualifying session of the season had prompted Wolff to declare that the team would need to change their car concept in order to get back to the fr♋ont. 

The eight-t🎐ime constructors’ champions have already started the process of redesigning their car and Wolff stress🌊ed the team need to keep sight of the bigger picture, despite their much-improved display in Australia. 

“This is exactly the swings that we must avoid,” Wolff said when asked whether he stood by the early dec🐻ision to switch concept📖s. 

"Because obviously yoꦫu're delivering such a good qualifying today and it swings into exuberance, and [if overreacting] we’re like, ‘okay everything we've thought was the wrong thing, let's continue to develop the car’. 

“And then wh𒉰en the next bad result you think it the other way around.

"We have never had any dogma on wh🍨at the car needs to look like. We know exactly🦄 where we got it wrong.

"We also know there's some goodness in the car, especially if we put every step ove🌞r a weekend right and we are able to extract what's in the car. You can see that♈.”

Mercedes’ qualifying performance in Australia led Aston Martin’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fernando Alonso to accuse the team of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:exaggerating their lack of pace. 

Wolff 𒐪insisted the result was beyond Mercedes’ expectations coming into the weekend. 

"I could play it coolly and sa✨y well, that is all like we expected it - but it's not,” he explained. “I think what you need to love in this sport is that with all the lows you have, you also have some highs.

"And obviously it's not where we want to be. We want to challenge all the wa🌠y to the front, but finishing P2/P3 was definitely 𒅌much more than we expected coming into this weekend.

“I tꦓhink it was just a🐠 brilliant job done by the team here in extracting the maximum out of the car. We did a great job on the tyres. And the two drivers have delivered.

“You can see on the onboard that tꦑhe car is still edgy to drive, it’s not as easy as you see with the Aston Martin or with thꦺe Red Bull.

“They are balancing the car on the razor’s ed♏ge and were able to extract that today.”

But Wolff cautioned the need for his team to stay realistic and avoid getting c꧅arried away with one good result.  

"I thinkꦬ we need to be careful not to osꦿcillate between mania and depression, but keep the thinking rational,” he said. 

"And what we've seen today is that there's a lot of potential unlocking wit🤡hin the car, that's clear, but we need to take the right decisions🐽 for the long term.

"And in that respect, we will c🙈ontinue to race the best possible package that we have. And whether that has a narrow body or wide body is irrelevant. We just need to have more downforce in the sweet spot of the car."