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Huge Shake Up At Mercedes After Wolffs Shocking Announcement!
So I think we can all agree, having seen the team struggle and seemingly decline over the course of the first 3 race weekends, Mercedes are in the mud. Not only are they in the mud, they seemingly can’t fathom how it’s happened, with a general bemusement visible from the team, its staff and its drivers. Melbourne was seemingly the nadir of this, with a first double DNF in 5 years for the Brackley team, which only exaggerated the Mercedes woes. While they weren’t exactly going to finish outside the points entirely, with Russel’s last lap crash happening while the Brit was still in the points scoring positions, neither driver is anywhere near threatening the front, which is a far cry from the position the team ended last year in. After 2 seasons of ups and downs, where the downs came in the form of near undrivable machinery and the ups came in a single shock win at an incredibly dramatic interlagos, Mercedes decided that 2024 was the perfect time to press the factory reset button and start fresh with a new concept. It’s fair to say that so far it’s not exactly working out, but given the team's surplus of engineers and engineering talent, why exactly is that? Well the buck has to stop somewhere, and as much as Mercedes wants to keep that famous no-blame culture, it may be far harder to maintain that when you’re no longer 2 seconds down the road.
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I just realized, their reign ended once the budget cap was implemented… So, it’s not really that they just became this bad, but rather that the rest managed to catch up. It’s like dominating single player mode, winning it all with ease. But then deciding to join online mode where all of a sudden your great skills aren’t as great anymore. Hamilton jumping a sinking ship (again) is the smarter move, but going to Ferrari isn’t. It’s not a team known to bend over backwards to give you what you want, not a team that’s particularly good at strategy, reliability or plain consistency. A team that’s historically cutthroat if you don’t give them what they want. And then there’s Charles who certainly won’t back down like Valtteri did. As much as I hate to say it, but Charles schooled Seb, and he’s only been getting better since. But then again, we don’t know what Lewis tries to achieve at Ferrari…
Learn more about F1 ... Mercedes Dominance ended when the rules were changed ! The rules were changed IN ORDER TO END MERCEDES DOMINANCE ! Simple really ! Mercedes did not forget how to build a great car ! The fans wanted F1 shaken up as they were bored seeing Mercedes win everything ! .. Sad ??? maybe ! but Toto and his team know that they need to sit back and let someone else win for a bit longer ... This is the time to test and learn , ready for their next attack on the titles ! BUT NOT YET
Hamilton told him to change direction 2 years ago, but was ignored.
And now they did and listened to Lewis advice and see where they are now! So much for Lewis contribution!
Identifying a need for change is not changing.
Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren and possibly Aston Martin are all in a similar ball park performance wise now so surely that will make for good racing over the next few seasons?
Where are they now that they listened????
@@brettwagner1184 Doh, they really should have asked for your advice Brett! (They’d be leading the championship by now!).
Hamilton is older and has a lot more to do to adjust his driving style to the car. He has to unlearn a lot to get a hold of the car. Its not a car comparable to rb and ferrari. I dont believe hamilton is so slow of a driver that on equal machinery he vesrtappen and leclerc would all be within a tenth. They are loosing a development battle as well as lewis being older than all of them. Adjustments are harder to make in my opinion. He has what it takes to compete but if it was younger hamilton i think hes just as skilled as max or leclerc etc. Even a good car he was still beating his teammates. Even if the car was great he still had to be consistent and fast and even better than his teammate in the same car to get 7. Dont downplay the fact he has been good enough to win 7 titles. Thats unfair. Hes not the same guy he used to be. Hes different and older
I think Hamilton and Alonzo have a deep understanding of vehicle dynamics considering they’ve driven many different iterations of the F1 car with success. The engineers lost the opportunity to utilize that deep experience based off their simulation data. They believed their AI generated data over what the driver could communicate. They’ve learned the hard way the same lesson we learn in real life; analog data has value .
He needs to listen to what the drivers are feeling when driving and what the car is feeding back to the drivers, not the engineers. What looks great on paper does not mean it is great in the real world.
Agreed, but it looks like the engineers can't proces the feedback from the drivers properly, because in the windtunnel and in simulations everything seems to work fine. This is where Lauda played an important role, as he was that rarity in F1: a driver who was also an engineer and therefore able to both explain his feedback in engineering terms ánd to solve issues himself. Hamilton leaving is because he feels that the engineers are doing nothing with his feedback and that frustrates him. From the engineer's point it must be pretty frustrating as well: everything they come up with works fine in both the windtunnel and in the simulator, but it doesn't seem to work at all on the track. Personally, I think this is the inherent weakness that Mercedes created when they let all their experienced engineers go and replaced them with very talented, but inexperienced engineers. last and not exactly least: Mercedes has problems with their chassis and aero from the moment they returned to F1 and they simply can't seem to turn it around.
Merc have gone from super to super lost, absolutely no real or genuine idea of the ground effect, how to make it work to good effect, hence what we see of their woeful offering, its affect on the drivers and their feedback, who, with the best will, are unable to put the power down with confidence and compliance from the car. Toto has to shoulder blame, despite the pain and frustration for the drivers, he too often seems almost nonchalant and resigned to the situation - probs part down to the fact Merc are not poor, he has a huge shareholder stake in the company, being a cosy billionaire.
Seems to me it all started going wrong when they got rid of,or changed the design of the sidepods
Is the voiceover A.I.? unfortunately too irritating to listen to for me.
Thanks for sharing 😀
Why are they relying so much on the data and not drivers input?
The parallels between what’s happening the last few years with the incumbent champ/team at merc and the same at Repsol Honda/Marquez in MotoGP are fascinating. Although the reasons are different, the end result is the same
Yes they need a reset ctrl+alt+defeat , ctrl+alt+defeat
The story of the last three, maybe four seasons has been a constant reference to what we are seeing in the wind tunnel, isnt what we are seeing on the track. That cannot happen year on year and be the main excuse, surely they have sufficient data, and reliable data to workout what is wrong, and what they need to do to make an improvement. If they dont, then clearly something is wildly wrong in their R&D model, and in their data capture systems. You dont need advanced engineers to work that out, christ you dont really need data scientists to work that out.
Paint the Silver Arrows back to silver and watch the improvement.
Fans/Spectators biases,opinions, while they matter for certain aspects of any sport, can’t really affect a sportsperson’s ability especially one who’s very fit physically and mentally..Sir Lewis’s age has nothing to do with his ability…strangely, nobody speaks about Fernando’s age in a negative manner.. Bias petticoats are showing under the pretense of expertise..
Lewis knew the car again was not going to be great before the 1st race, seems a wise move he made to leave 😢
Mercedes relies too heavily on data and not driver experiences, and Lewis knows it and is always bringing this up. Now I know how they were so dominant years ago. If they had trouble, just throw more $$ at it.
Yep. As soon as the cost cap came into play they lost their dominance essentially
It’s time the company issues team orders to the non racers too
Not sure why Mercedes is getting so much attention over this issue. The struggle to get it right is the rule rather than the exception. They dominated with the previous era car, while everyone else was struggling. This is by design by the FIA. If it was easy, everyone would vying for the front. A lot of teams are struggling. This notion that Mercedes is supposed to be on top forever, and when they are not. Is such a surprise, Is crazy. They are just another team trying to get it right.
True, but to "get it right" 7 years in a row while no other team "got it right" in that time span...
So funny to read the comments from people that claim to know F1. I guess too many have watched Drive to Survive on Netflix and now proclaim to be experts on F1 and the drivers. Including people who make posts like these for others to see. Sad.
Pay much more attention to what you say and what write on the screen. You say McLaren but you write Mercedes. Yeah, they have Mercedes engine but the team name is different.
They changed the rules then cheated them to change the guard at the top
Mr. Toto Wolff: A great leader knows when to step back. Your indecision is affecting the team and it shows. You are no longer the “cheerleader in chief” you previously claimed to be. Stepping away is not failure, you still co-own the team. Give the TP role to someone else. James Allison, since you let James Vowles go. Or take your pick. The leadership of this team has stagnated or moved on in recent years. Simply stop being a clog.
Talk and talk and talk
even 2022 was better... at least there was a mercedes win...
Because they are rubbish, they had advantage and favourable from f1 chief at beginning, now thats gone they have been found out.
its not Toto Wolf the genius behind Mercedes was Niki Lauda ,after his dead nothing happened by Meercedes
U mean Ross brawn
Lauda was a brand ambassador and hadn’t driven in decades. He was not all that active in car design
Hahaha tell us you know nothing about the sport without actually telling us😅 lauda played no part or had any influence on car design and direction
@@ianaddiction3808 Niki signed Hamilton, twice.
@@JanbekOzturk yes, but the main influence was Ross brawn! Like Peter jones on dragons den!
Of course, there is no Michael Schumacher to give them a perfect car any longer.
What are you on about? 🤷♀️
Schumacher had absolutely nothing to do with the cars that dominated for so long, absolutely nothing!
@@ianaddiction3808 Really! Lol....
@@ianaddiction3808 Toto has stated publicly that Schumacher and Costa were central to the 2014 Merc
Hamilton was right. Given that he's fast, so long as he's in front, he clearly recognizes the need to have the fastest machinery under him. In the same car, there are a number of other drivers who would systematically beat him. Alonso has always had his measure, and so has Verstappen. It's uncharacteristically brave of him to go to Ferrari - my money is on Leclerc. On every race.
nothing against hamilton or his talent, but being 5-8years ahead in a frozen psu battle making it farily easy to dominate when your cars horsepower is around 20% higher at any given time versus competition, mercedes failing to take this lead and succes further shows how sometimes you get lucky and once it was time to innovate and redesign they have been falling flat, meanwhile talents such as adrian and others have continued to be consistent and worked hard
Being a Ferrari man but not a Hamilton fan, my jaw dropped to the floor when it was announced..☹️ I would say that Charles might just have the edge between them with the same equipment, but because he can make so many silly mistakes + the team mistakes it’s not a given.. I’m guessing Charles will out qualify Hamilton most weekends but obviously that depends on how the car is next year.. This season it’s plain to see Hamilton is no better than an average driver even getting upstaged by George… Maybe he’s caught the Danni Ricciardo disease …………🤷♂️😂
You'll lose your money.
Given a straight fight, sorry but my money will always be on Lewis. ONE of the most hard but fairest drivers that’s ever been.
You silly rabbit!
BOOHOOHOO
If one believes computers over humans in real life, it shows amazing stupidity. Someone's ego is running it, not computers.
If computers could build the fastest car, all the cars would be tied and look the same. Just saying….
Mercedes thought they could win without input from Sir Lewis. Monumental mistake…
In the long run, Mercedes is going to be much better without him. All of his whining and crying, all it does is drag the team down. All because of Lewis, they gave up on their zero side pod concept which Max is showing works great. Yet Hamilton couldn’t handle a car that loose.
Their attention is 100% on George and as a side note Lewis never had to develop a car, he was gifted a car 1 second clear of the field each year and who developed it? that's right MSC
Max aka 2021 fake champion embarrassing fanbase always trying to discredit Lewis. Lewis will pull Max pants down in the same car. Max is afraid of being in the same team with Lewis because he knows what will happen 🤣🤣
Hamilton and Max are only still competing in your fantasies, Max beat him driving a slower car. He isn't quick anymore Russell is farming him, so will Leclerc.
Why doesn't mercedes make room for audi?
Hamilton can’t win anything now he hasn’t got a superior car and a teammate who is allowed to challenge him.
Max? I hear he is in a slow car? And no team mate
How do you explain him winning many races and his first title without a superior car then, and every team mate has been allowed to race fairly.