Wolff very proud of Mercedes: 'Now make sure the car goes fast too'

Toto Wolff is very proud of his team's performance. Mercedes surprised several people in Bahrain with their 'zeropod' concept. Although there is still much work to be done, the Austrian expresses his appreciation.

For eight years in a row, Mercedes has been the constructors' world champion, but in Bahrain, the development team showed that there is no sign of satisfaction just yet. The German once again came up with a concept that we have not seen so extreme in any other team. Wolff is proud of his team.

''I think we are really proud of what we have achieved in terms of concept. But now we need to make it go fast. I think it’s a development direction that we like, and it’s about tuning the car and so we are experimenting a lot, as we’ve done during the day, and approaching it with curiosity'', says the Mercedes team boss at Formula1.com.

Yet it was not all hosanna with the team from Brackley, because the car still suffered from porpoising and especially George Russell sometimes slipped in a corner. ''I think there [are still] issues that are… Bahrain-specific. It’s very hot, you see a lot of cars still bouncing – some on the straights, others through the corners – so it’s a tuning question. And we haven’t really looked at performance data yet.,'' Wolff concludes.