Wolff: Taking away F1 budget cap wouldn't have solved Mercedes W13's issues

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Wolff: Taking away F1 budget cap wouldn't have solved Mercedes W13's issues
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'It wouldn't have changed anything.' 💬

were hindered by a porpoising issue through the early part of the season, but as the team moved to fix the problem, deeper issues with the W13 car became apparent.

This year, teams faced the added challenge of developing their new cars under the $140 million budget cap, forcing them to be more considered about what areas to focus on for development. “We’re not lacking the capability, nor were we lacking any of the tools, nor time,” Wolff said on F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast.

But the porpoising problem returned soon after, and was even present to a small degree at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.Wolff explained that Mercedes could not solve all of the bouncing problems with the W13 car, but that the team thought it was “going to be easier next year.”

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