Toto Wolff identifies Mercedes’ main weakness despite Lewis Hamilton pole at F1 Hungarian GP
Hamilton stunned 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen by beating the Red Bull driver to pole at the Hungaroring by just 0.003s with an extraordinary effort on 𝕴his very last lap of qualifying.
It marked the seven-time world champion’s first pole since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and only the second time Mercedes hav🧸e topped qualifying since the start of 2022.
“Clearly we have a package today that was competitive and🥃 Lewis just drove an amazing lap and put it on pole. I think that’s something we can be really proud of,” Wolff said after qualifying.
“The bigges🐬t weakness we have in the car is not a lack of downfor🌳ce, it is that the car is unpredictable.
“The drivers never have the confidence to really push it hard in qualifying and I think the car they had today was something that gave confiden🌌ce and allowed them to push without thinking that it could step out on the entrance or exit of the corner.
“I think this is the main areওa we need to work on, giving them a car balance that is more preꦦdictable.”
Wolff described the fluctuating performance with the new generation of F1 cars as an “enigma”, citing Alfa Romeo’s surprising qualifying showing as the latest proof of dramatic swings in t👍he pecking order.
“I think there is a cer💝tainly a part of these ground effect cars that is an enigma. Performances seem to come and go for all th♛e teams,” he explained.
“Congratulations to Alfa, they are 🧸fifth and seventh on the grid today ꧋and I don’t think they understand where that came from.
“So Red Bull seems the only one that has really unlocked it and understand whatꦉ happened, and maybe McLaren now. But this is not something that you can reverse engineer.
“This is something that you have got to work at t🌱o come to the right conclusions. That has been the characteristic of the car: the loose rear end and the lack oꦗf confidence.”
Asked if Mercedes can replicate Saturday’s performance🔯 at other circuits, Wolff replied: “I think th♐is needs better understanding.
“We have been able to pull out a great performance today with one car and mayb🥀e the second car would have been there, who knows.
“But you don’t praise the day before the evening, and I 🐻think we need to consolidate that and that’s the tricky b🐻it.”
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