If in the Ferrari house, with the resignation of Sanchez, the situation is certainly not the best, it's not that it's so different in the Mercedes house. The Brackley stables has just returned from a start to the season that already raises many doubts about the future of the W14increasingly the subject of attention.
Hamilton's attack
Lewis Hamilton's fifth place and Russell's seventh, combined with dominance Red Bull and to fight with Aston Martin, seem to have made it clear to the engineers that the aerodynamic concept “zero sidepods” does not work. Lewis also spoke on the matter during the week Hamilton that was it also quite hard and clear"I have driven so many cars in my life. I know what a car needs and what it doesn't. Now it's really about responsibility, admit and say, 'we didn't listen to you and now we're not where we should be'. I've had many cars with this behavior in the past, especially in my McLaren days and I don't know when or how we'll be able to turn, but it will have to happen."
Wolff preaches calm: 'Lewis is with us'
There was no lack of an answer, however calm, by team principal Toto Wolff who commented on the situation as follows: "Lewis' words you heard them on the radio. I can tell you that he is an integral part of the team, he supports it and we are all united and I don't think that will change just because the boot was bad. With him we have won eight constructors' championships and six drivers' championships and the ratio is always the same".
“We must be united”
Wolff therefore preferred to remain calm, even if the car certainly didn't give the desired results. In this regard, on the possibility of a second W-14, Toto added: “We must have one goal right now: push everyone in the same direction, the drivers, the engineers, all the management, instead of throwing in the towel. We never have and we never will."
