Wolff: Canadian GP a "wake-up call" for Mercedes
F1 News
- Jake Williams-Smith
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says the Canadian Grand Prix served as a "wake-up call" to Mercedes.
The reigning champions and current championship leaders have enjoyed an incredible run of nine-straight race victories that now spans back to the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Although the team is yet to lose a race in 2019, Wolff insisted that the team's performance over the weekend in Montreal acted as a reminder that they needed to be at the top of their game at all times to maintain the strong run of form.
"Canada was something of a wake-up call for us," Wolff explained ahead of the French Grand Prix.
"After a run of very good reliability over the opening six races, we experienced a number of problems over the course of the weekend, almost all of which were of our own making - from the problem with the fuel system on Valtteri's car in FP1 to the hydraulic leak on Lewis' car which we had to fix on the morning before the race.
"We were fortunate that those reliability issues were exposed when we still had the chance to solve them, but we know that they could have easily ruined our weekend and it is down to the great skill of our mechanics that they didn't.
"Part of our strength over the past three months was that the entire team - at the track, in Brackley and in Brixworth - delivered to a very high level and we need to make sure that we achieve the same high standard again for France."