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Mercedes are preparing to bin their 2023 car – the humiliating concession coming on Saturday night in Bahrain on the eve of the season’s opening grand prix.Team principal Toto Wolff delivered the astonishing news after the Silver Arrows qualified six-tenths of a second adrift of pole-sitter in a machine – the W14 – that he admitted is not capable of carrying to an eighth world title.’I don’t think that this package is going to be competitive eventually,’ he said. The U-turn came 24 hours after the sense of continuing with the flawed design. That was before he qualified seventh, a place behind team-mate .It seems likely the floor of the car and the linked ‘zero’ sidepod will be binned.
None of their rivals have adopted a similar approach, and it is clear why not. The stopwatch provides the unequivocally damning answer. Toto Wolff says Mercedes are going to announce they will be binning off their 2023 car design The news is tough for Lewis Hamilton, who is looking to make history winning his eighth titleSo a long, hard road lies ahead for the team who have dominated the last decade of Formula One.
Their halo slipped last season when new regulations were introduced. Red Bull stole a march, while the Mercedes bounced along ineffectively as only the third best on the grid.On Saturday, Paito Macau they were fourth quickest, behind Red Bull – out on their own with a front-row lockout achieved with Sergio Perez’s second-quickest time – Ferrari and Aston Martin. Embarrassingly, they supply Aston’s engines and share the same wind tunnel.
The rear of both cars are also alike. So that points to the floor-sidepod combination as the chief area of concern.Experimenting with a new concept will take time to hone, probably months, and involve taking a step back to take two forward.Wolff talked of having the right infrastructure in place to put things right.
This is a moot point. Are they still a super-team? James Allison is lost as technical director. Andy Cowell is gone as the engine guru. Eddie Bladin has departed as chief aerodynamicist. The news comes just 24 hours after the British driver questioned the car’s design Blandin is now at Aston Martin where, tellingly, he hardly seems to have argued in favour of employing the Mercedes concept there.It may also be crucial that the decisive, no-nonsense Niki Lauda died in 2019.
His directness was crucial in counteracting Wolff’s more methodical and cautious approach.Speaking calmly in the Mercedes paddock chalet, Wolff said: ‘We gave it our best go over the winter, and now we all just need to sit down with the engineers, be totally non-dogmatic, ask what development direction we want to pursue in order to be able to win races.’At this team we blame the problem not the person. I have responsibilities.
I need to fire myself if I want to do something about it.’We have all the ingredients to be successful. We got it wrong last year. We thought we could fix it by sticking to the concept of the car, but it didn’t work out.
So we just need to switch our focus on what we believe is the right direction. The news comes on the eve of the start of the new F1 season at the Bahrain Grand Prix His rival Max Verstappen (pictured) had said he didn’t think that the car was ‘competitive’ ‘We see on the GPS where we are lacking performance and where we are good.’We started last year with six tenths and we started this year with six tenths.’Every day counts.
We are losing these days. It’s going to be difficult to catch up so we need to take the right decisions now to set the sails in the right direction.'<div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sport" data-version="2" id="mol-78e15d40-bad1-11ed-bf63-b387baec69cd" website are ASTONISHINGLY preparing to bin their 2023 car