Mercedes “underperformed” in F1 2024 and “shou🦂ldn’t be proud” of their season, according𝓀 to former Haas team principal Guenther Steiner.

The Silver Arrows endured another disappointing campaign as both168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell struggled to tame Mercedes’ unpreꦡdictable and inconsistent W15 car.

Mercedes did enjoy several high points, claiming a total of four race victories, but spent much 📖of the year as the fourth-fastest team and ultimately finished a distant P4 in the constructors’ championship behind McLඣaren, Ferrari and Red Bull. 

“I think Mercedes underperformed,” Steiner told the Red Flags podcast. “Obviously, because McLaren, with the ⛦same engine, did better. And I th🍰ink Mercedes would admit to that.

“It was a long time that somebody with a customer engine won the World Championship, but they just did a good job. And I think the regulations helped, being stable foꦛr so long, because then, you know your engine package every ꦯyear, and the engine being frozen, that helps a lot, that the engine doesn’t change.

“And you adapt your next year’s car always what you’ve got, and♑ if you kꦑnow what you’ve got well in advance, that helps you.

“So I think there was a few elements which helped them, but it’s still not easy to do if you’re not a pr🧸oducer of a power unit.

“McLaren can feel great and Mercedes shouldn’t be pr𝓀oud of it what they did.”

Wolff has ‘zero problem’ with defeat to customer

McLaren’s triumph in the constructors’ championshi♋p saw the Woking squad become the first customer team to win the title since൲ Brawn GP in 2009.

But Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff insisted he hadꦑ no issue with being beaten by a customer and branded McLaren’s championship win as “a success for Mercedes 🐷motorsport”.

Asked post-race in Abu Dhabi whether he was disappointed to ha🤪ve been beaten by a c🌃ustomer team, Wolff told media including mahbx.com: “If we can’t win as a works team I’d much rather be beaten by a customer team.

“I have zero problem with that, it shows us where the be♑nchmark is.

“There’s no discussion about the performance level of the engine, no discussion about dri🎃veability of the engine, none of that.

“World champions are our customers, we fight on the same terms, if theyꦰ have better execution, better drivers then that’s completely fine for us.

“This is a success for Mercedes motorsport.ﷺ It gives us the primary objective to win.”