Wolff reflects on historic moment: 'Good memories of Hungary'
F1 News
- Sam Godber
Mercedes aims to continue the positive momentum of the British GP at the Hungarian Grand Prix. At the home race, the team finished on the podium thanks to Lewis Hamilton (third). At the Hungaroring, Mercedes also traditionally always gets good results, which gives team boss Toto Wolff a positive feeling ahead of the second-to-last Grand Prix before the summer break.
Wolff looks back on the first half of the season with mixed feelings. "It has been an up-and-down first half of the year, but we can take several positives," says the Austrian, who cites Silverstone, for example, as a great result. "At Silverstone, we outscored our closest competitors. We executed well on race day. We were able to race to the podium and extend our P2 advantage in the championship."
Wolff looks forward to elaboration updates
A Grand Prix these days - behind winner Max Verstappen - is hard to predict. Mercedes is battling Aston Martin, Ferrari and now McLaren for spots behind the Dutchman's Red Bull. Wolff realises that his team needs to keep developing to narrow the gap to the leaders.
"Several teams have made big gains recently. This has brought some into the fight with us, especially McLaren. It has been impressive and gives us encouragement that we can also continue to find gains. We relish that challenge and will bring our own steps in due course.The Hungaroring is a circuit that is quite different in nature to Silverstone. It will be interesting to explore how our latest upgrades perform in the long-radius, slow-speed corners," Wolff says.
In any case, the confidence is there: "We have good memories from Hungary last year, with George's first pole position in F1 and a double podium for the Team. This race also marks a decade since Lewis' first win with us, so it's a circuit full of good memories.Hopefully we can have another strong showing this time out. We want to build on the positive momentum from Silverstone and take the fight to our rivals."