Problems at Mercedes pile up: 'Need to ask themselves some big questions'

Mercedes seems to be have to forget about a world championship this season. In its eighth race weekend, the German racing stable still failed to catch up with Ferrari and Red Bull Racing, further increasing the gap. Damon Hill sees that Mercedes still does not know what trajectory to take.

During the second free practice session in Azerbaijan, Mercedes decided to make some changes to Lewis Hamilton 's car in order to investigate whether he would go faster. However, the opposite was true, as the Briton again suffered from the porpoising seen earlier in the season.

"It looks like they're trying everything they can think of," judges Hill in conversation with Sky Sports. "They said that they felt like they had a direction in Spain, but it's been lost again. They need to ask themselves some big questions and take some big decisions, I think."

According to the former Formula One driver, Mercedes already went wrong with the concept at the beginning of the season, so it is now not easy to make the car faster with updates. The formation is therefore trying things out to force something, although it remains to be seen what it will achieve.