Mercedes F1 Boss Says He’ll Copy Red Bull To Win, Even Put ‘Little Bull Stickers’ on Cars.
Mercedes sounds like they’ll do whatever it takes to win this year. Even if that means copying the car next to them.
PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2023 7:00 PM
byJerry Perez
The Drive23:00 Thu, 23 Mar 2023.

"If it's a Red Bull, we will put a little bull somewhere with a sticker, and I will have no shame if it's quick," Wolff said, according to Motorsport.com

"I think at this stage, we have no dogmatism of how the car should look like," added Wolff. "It just needs to be the quickest possible race car. And if that car looks like a Red Bull, or like SpaceX, I don't care, it just needs to be quick."

‘Little Bull Stickers’;

https://www.thedrive.com/news/merced...ickers-on-cars


Lewis Hamilton warned he may not be 'really loved' at Mercedes after Toto Wolff comments.
Lewis Hamilton is yet to agree to a new contract as tension rise at Mercedes.
09:06, Thu, Mar 23, 2023
By Luke Chillingsworth
Daily and Sunday Express

Lewis Hamilton may be thinking he is not really loved at Mercedes after remarks from Toto Wolff, according to Eddie Jordan. In Saudi Arabia, Wolff claimed Mercedes would be prepared to lose Hamilton if they were unable to give him a title-winning car. He told OLBG: “At the moment, there's no contract signed and Toto Wolff said if he was Hamilton he would consider leaving.

“What would I be thinking if I was Hamilton, am I really loved here? What is actually happening at Mercedes? I'm not in the thick of things like I used to be. I don't know Wolff's point of view on the situation but I believe when he says he wants Hamilton to stay. But the Mercedes is not good enough for Hamilton.”

‘Eddie Jordan thoughts’;

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...wolff-contract


Toto Wolff provides Lewis Hamilton contract update as he admits he could join rival team
Lewis Hamilton is yet to extend his contract with Mercedes, which runs out at the end of the season.
23 March 2023
by Jack Devonport
Formula1News

It has been rumoured that should Mercedes continue to fail to provide Hamilton with a title challenging car, the seven-time world champion could make a move elsewhere, something which Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has refused to rule out.

“As a driver, nevertheless, if he wants to win another championship, he needs to make sure that he has the car,” he said on Friday. “And if we cannot demonstrate that we’re able to give him a car in the next couple of years, then he needs to look everywhere. I don’t think he’s doing it at that stage, but I will have no grouch if that happens in a year or two.”

‘Make sure that he has the car’;

https://formula1news.co.uk/toto-wolf...in-rival-team/


Toto Wolff reveals if he will ‘make heads roll’ to appease Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton is yet to commit to Mercedes beyond the end of this year, amid the team's continued struggles with the W14.
24 March 2023
by Nick Golding
Formula1News

Wolff has stressed, though, that no engineers will be facing the exit door, with the side not prepared to suddenly “make heads roll”. “An organisation is constantly changing and you can’t stop that either,” Wolff said.
“Now it’s about how we develop further and discussions are taking place about what the organisation should look like in the future. But it is not as if we are going to make heads roll. It’s better to ask, ‘how can we function as well as possible in the future?’”

‘No engineers will be facing the exit door’;

https://formula1news.co.uk/toto-wolf...ewis-hamilton/


Wolff admits to missing Niki Lauda during difficult times for Mercedes
24 March 2023
Formula One - Official Site

Asked about Lauda’s influence, and how much he is missing him as a source of counsel during Mercedes’s current tricky spell, Wolff said: “Niki’s missed all those years because Niki always simplified things to really what mattered.

“I’m having to think what would he have said, and how would he have positioned [things], and the two of us worked well together in that sense that sometimes oversimplification can lead you straight to the results.”

‘Niki always simplified things’;

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...5RB3CbFNz.html


Wolff admits thinking 'what would Niki have done'?
24/03/2023 at 12:57
Phillip van Osten
F1i.com

Toto Wolff continues to miss the presence in the Mercedes garage of the late Niki Lauda whose forthright and direct approach to the team's affairs would have proven useful in these troubled times for the Brackley squad.

"This is a technical sport so maybe my role was to translate it in a way that we actually were able to execute it in the car design. But this is very simple: the stopwatch never lies, and we see on the data where we are missing and that needs to be corrected."

'What would Niki have done';

https://f1i.com/news/469762-wolff-ad...have-done.html


Lewis Hamilton warns Mercedes could go even slower as Toto Wolff turns the screw
Mercedes have been unable to match Max Verstappen and Red Bull as they continue to lack performance.
11:32, Fri, Mar 24, 2023
By Luke Chillingsworth
Daily and Sunday Express
Daily and Sunday Express

Lewis Hamilton has warned Mercedes might be slower if they switched their current concept for Red Bull sidepods. The seven-time champion has stressed it was “not as simple” as adopting the Red Bull design and suggested it would “not change a thing” if they did.

"You put the Red Bull sidepods on our car and it won't change a thing, it literally won't change a thing, it might even go slower. It's about aero characteristics, it's how the car is balanced through the corners. There's so many different elements that people of course would not know because they're not aerodynamicists and you can't see it - there's a lot more to it." Mercedes lack pace for a second successive campaign despite getting on top of their porpoising issues.”

‘Mercedes could go even slower’;

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...des-toto-wolff


Toto Wolff says Mercedes need to ‘double development speed’ to catch Red Bull
Mercedes have claimed just one victory in the last 25 races, with the Germans already finding themselves 49 points behind Red Bull.
26 March 2023
by Nick Golding
Formula1News

Wolff openly admits that Mercedes are up to “12 months” behind in terms of understanding the new regs due to how long they spent fixing the W13, with the team principal recognising that “we need to be perfect” to catch Red Bull.

“I think the lag is probably between six and 12 months because that’s the time that it took for us to figure out what was actually happening with the car,” Wolff told The Race.

‘Double development speed’

https://formula1news.co.uk/toto-wolf...atch-red-bull/