Are Mercedes already written off for the 2024 season? Russell responds!
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- Cas van de Kleut
The season has not started ideally for Mercedes. The team is only fourth with 26 points. By comparison, Red Bull and Ferrari both have over 90 points already and McLaren is on 55 points. George Russell thinks it is too early to draw conclusions.
If you had said four years ago that Mercedes would not be competing for victories in 2024, you would have been looked at with surprise. Yet it really is true: in 2024, Mercedes did not even get on the podium after three races.
It is clear that Mercedes is disappointing, but Russell thinks it is too early to write off the season already: "It's still obviously early days in the season. I think there's a clear trend, where we know our strengths in the car, our weaknesses. Definitely performing stronger in the low-speed corners, struggling a bit in the high-speed corners, of which there's more of in Jeddah, more of in Melbourne, more of in Suzuka, you know, these are the faster circuits of the season."
Russell is not writing off Mercedes just yet
The Briton continued: "There's still plenty to understand. So as I said, still early days, we know we're not where we want to be, but everybody's working really hard to, you know, improve the correlation, get a bit closer to what we're seeing at the factory on the simulator and find some performance.."