Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff is confident the team will not be left in a desolate environment for years after being relegated from the top of the sport.
For the first time since F1 introduced turbo-hybrid rules in 2014, Mercedes failed to win the drivers’ or constructors’ championships this year.
F1 history books have often shown that dominant teams can languish for years after finally losing, and Mercedes are in danger of collapse more than once this year.
But Toto Wolff says he has carried out a detailed analysis of why other top-class teams have declined, and that it shows Mercedes can escape the fate of other top-class teams, saying that other teams in the this ranks. staff and drivers, or changes in engine partners.
But Mercedes has retained the best talent that has led to its recent successes, so Wolff says there is no major cause for concern at the moment.
Of stopping the decline that other leading teams are facing, Wolff said: “Of course we are talking about it, analyzing the past reasons why a team that dominated a period of performance suddenly lost. And we have been able to trace that back quite well,” he said.
“Regulation changes, people leaving, tires have changed significantly. We have the same organization, the same capabilities, the same financial resources. And we have something in common and we believe we can trace it. ing”
“We are aware of all that. The regulations have changed. We are wrong. But all the other pillars are still there. We need to adapt and understand the system.”
Toto Wolff believes that other teams have had to make fundamental changes to their organizations, which have taken them so long to improve, but he believes that Mercedes does not need to do that, but in the same way Mercedes Bearing in mind that it could things get worse quickly if
“Taking Ferrari as an example, you can see that they have lost top leadership and a key driver,” Wolff said.
“I think it’s understandable if you look back on it.”
“With Red Bull, the basic situation was that the power unit regulations were reversed and basically the works contract was gone. So the basic parameters have changed.”
“But we look at it and think, ‘You better watch out. The seasons go by so fast and you better watch out. After next season and the season after that, we’ll look back. It shouldn’t be like that.’
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