“We’ve had this positive trajectory since the last three races and everything seems to make a lot more sense. The stopwatch will tell us.”
In the early stages of the season, Mercedes seemed to have difficulty matching the data from its simulations with the car’s actual performance on the track. When asked if this aspect of things had been addressed yet, Wolff gave some insight into how the team had addressed their issues.
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“There is no silver bullet in Formula 1, so it was constant work to understand what was wrong,” he explained.
“I know everyone got fed up with this answer, but you can’t reverse engineer the car’s performance and say, ‘We’re looking at a Red Bull and this is what we want our car to be.’
“You really need to solve the problems. There seemed to be no correlation between the tunnel and the track, and the car was difficult to drive, we had the bounce coming back. “Then we had a clear indication of what we were missing from the puzzle and we put that piece in.”