George Russell has conceded Mercedes have been “playing catch up” throughout F1 2023 after the team made a host of “wrong decisions over the winter”.
Mercedes went into 2023 with greater optimism after a year of learning last year.
They ended on a high with a win at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix while continuing to close the gap to the top two teams.They had a rude awakening in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, ending the race at the fourth-fastest team. Since then, Mercedes has made steady progress, sitting comfortably second in the constructors’ championship., Russell revealed that Mercedes continue to “understand things further and clearer” at each event.
“We definitely made some wrong decisions over the winter last year that set us back quite a little bit and that's why we've being playing catch up so far this season,” Russell said.Russell explained that a big weakness with the W14 is rear end stability and having that confidence to push. “Something we've been trying to improve a lot is just the through corner balance of the car,” Russell explained.
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