Mercedes team foremost Toto Wolff has said that his team’s exhibitions are ‘not great enough’ taking after a destitute qualifying at the Australian Fantastic Prix.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton fizzled to reach Q3 and was beaten by team-mate George Russell once once more in a qualifying session, but indeed the last mentioned seem as it were oversee seventh.
The destitute execution came after the Brackley-based equip had looked solid in FP3, with both cars within the best five.
For Hamilton, it speaks to a continuation of his poor begin to the 2024 season, whereas the group in common show up to have gone in reverse from being the second-quickest car in 2023.
Toto Wolff has directed a destitute begin to 2024
Lewis Hamilton performed hopelessly in qualifying
Wolff irritated by ‘difficult’ W15
Mercedes have only managed one race victory since the 2021 season, and had trusted that their modern W15 car would thrust them closer into dispute for wins taking after a troublesome to begin with two seasons of the ground impact period.
Be that as it may, the group see assist off the pace than they were in 2022 and 2023, which coupled with the clear change of Ferrari and McLaren has cleared out them fourth within the constructors’ championship, whereas Hamilton is as it were ninth within the drivers’ standings.
Talking to Sky Sports F1 after qualifying for the Australian GP, Wolff was obviously baffled by the team’s need of advance.
“Yeah particularly underwhelming as we were beneath a tenth in FP3, the conditions were a small bit distinctive but there’s no pardon,” he said.
“I think we have a car that’s troublesome and you’ll be barely in and out of the window and as annoyed as I am for saying this for a long time, we fair proceed, we fair ought to proceed working on it and attempting to get way better.
“It’s not since of a need of attempting that we are where we are but it’s not great enough.”
