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Is Wolff referring to Red Bull? 'At other teams we see a negative trend'
- Ludo van Denderen
In the end, Mercedes lost a well-celebrated one-two at the Belgian Grand Prix. So although George Russell will not go down in history as the winner at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in 2024 - that honour is reserved for his teammate Lewis Hamilton - the race in the Ardennes once again made it clear that Mercedes are back at the top. Out of the last four Grands Prix, team boss Toto Wolff's team won three.
Even before Russell's disqualification was a reality, Wolff looked back on the last few weeks with satisfaction. "There's swings of performance, we see a trend which is definitely positive on our side. With some other teams, we see a negative trend. But I don't think we should really pre-empt how the second half of the season will go. It's a tough fight. There are four teams ahead. They're giving it everything. So I think we can be carefully optimistic. There's ten races to go," Wolff said.
Mercedes unrecognisable after Friday at Spa
Mercedes has impressed this season with good car development. But on Friday at Spa, things were not running well at all for the Germans, just when a new floor for the W-15 had been introduced. At the Grand Prix, however, all problems had disappeared.
"I think we made a drastic change in order to recover some of the performance," Wolff explained how this difference could be so big. "I don't believe it was the floor. It's going to be very interesting when we put everything on the car, for example, and correlate and see what one does to the other. Then we can be sure whether it's the mechanical bit that we thought we got wrong or whether the fluid reactions are aerodynamic and mechanical."
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