Mercedes boss Toto Wolff delivers damning verdict after French GP qualifying: It’s simply not ok
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff delivered a damning verdict on the qualifying efficiency of the crew by saying that it wasn’t ok on Saturday.
With upgrades made to the automobile and the Circuit Paul Ricard being one of many smoothest tacks on the F1 calendar, many anticipated the Silver Arrows to be difficult for the pole place throughout qualifying and probably rating the win on Sunday.
However, issues did not go in accordance with plan as Red Bull and Ferrari as soon as once more led the pack with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell ending P4 and P6 respectively.
Mercedes needed to make each drivers swap to tender tyres as they simply scrapped by way of to make it to Q3.
Speaking to Sky Sports on Saturday, Wolff stated that after the brand new tyres got here on, they had been going to finish up being the third pressure on the grid. But total, the efficiency was not ok in accordance with the Mercedes boss.
“I feel we knew as soon as we obtained the brand new tyres on and we’re driving the automobile in anger a little bit bit, that we’re going to be there as a 3rd pressure like we’ve been all season.”
“But yeah, it’s just not good enough,” said Wolff.
Wolff was then told that the Silver Arrows’ race weekend had been messy since they had used different rear wings on both the cars. The Mercedes boss responded by saying that they were freestyling a bit as things weren’t going according to plan.
“You can see when you’re a little bit on the back foot, your expectations are on a certain level for the race weekend and it doesn’t come together, a kind of freestyling starts.”
“And with us it was primarily experimenting with rear wing ranges and in addition tyre temperatures. But on the finish, the general package deal is simply not fast sufficient and might see that,” stated Wolff.
Wolff, nevertheless, went on to agree with Hamilton’s suggestion that the qualifying session had been immense. While he did level out that the British driver may have been P5 if not for Carlos Sainz’ grid penalty, the Mercedes boss claimed that Hamilton did a very good job on the day.
“Yeah, immense job. If we have now Sainz there it’s P5, however nonetheless a terrific, nice job. He most likely has extracted greater than the automobile has in the mean time,” stated Wolff.
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