“We started 10 meters behind everyone,” Toto Wolff breaks silence on Mercedes’ surprising downfall in 2022

Mercedes has been the underachievers this season due to poor car development.

“We started 10 meters behind everyone,” Toto Wolff breaks silence on Mercedes’ surprising downfall in 2022

Toto Wolff

Toto Wolff has recently shed light on the tumultuous campaign, that the Mercedes Team went through during the 2022 F1 season. He feels that his team started the new regulations era of the sport, 10 meters behind its rivals, and thus, had to suffer during the season.

After dominating the turbo hybrid era, the Brackley-based team had not in their wildest dreams, expected to finish this year’s campaign in third place in the Constructors Championship. Moreover, the most surprising thing for them, and the rest of the paddock, was the fact that they were not able to fight for the Championship.

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Porpoising ended up being the Achilles heel of Mercedes during 2022 and put the team on the back foot against Ferrari and Red Bull early on in the campaign. The 2022 season has by now, become a thing of the past, but Toto Wolff has recently talked about his team’s exploits during the season.

We’ve started the 100-metre sprint 10 metres behind everyone, so we’ve just got to run faster. This organisation has all that’s needed to run faster.
Toto Wolff said.

Toto Wolff’s take on his team’s 2022 F1 campaign

The Mercedes F1 Team and its fanbase all over the World have been left extremely disappointed with this year’s campaign. Its the failure to address proposing that has put the team in the backfoot. Because ethe time it took, Mercedes drivers had a unbalanced car with downforce issues and it made them uncomfortable.

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Toto Wolff
We need to be sharp. We’ve lost six months of development. We lost many months of development because we simply had to solve the porpoising problem before being able to actually add performance back onto the car. Because whatever we added in terms of downforce, it went nowhere. The drivers couldn’t feel it, the car became even more unpredictable.
Toto Wolff said.

Toto Wolff is concerned about his team going into the 2023 season, as he believes, that Mercedes is way behind Ferrari and Red Bull. Considering everything that the Mercedes boss has said about the team, how do you see the Silver Arrows 2023 season shaping up next year?

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