Changing the concept of the car? Mercedes is not planning it (yet)

Mercedes has yet to have success with the 2022 car. The gap with Red Bull Racing and Ferrari is huge, victories seem unrealistic for now. Radical changes seem necessary to get back on top.

Understanding the car

Most prominent are the lack of sidepods on the Mercedes, but so far they haven't brought the success Mercedes hoped for. Moreover, Mercedes suffers, most of all the teams from porpoising. In Monaco, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell bounced in their cockpits. Still, Mercedes is not yet at the point of completely changing the concept of the car, team boss Toto Wolff reveals to Racer.com.

The explanation is simple: "If you want to change concept you need to understand what’s going to make the new concept faster than the current one, and I think if we would have known we would have done it," Wolff said. At the moment, Mercedes is still mainly learning to understand the car and thinking about how to develope.

Focus

Wolff is looking forward to the end of June, when Mercedes can use the wind tunnel. That will be the time to test all kinds of adjustments. The Austrian does indicate that there may come a time when the focus goes to the 2023 car. When that moment is, he cannot say.