All the teams want to put their package of improvements on the table to fight against Red Bull. So far they have not succeeded. in Azerbaijan Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen They were far superior and fought again for the victory between the two of them alone.
Mercedes was far from close. lewis hamilton was fifth and George Russell, eighth. The W14 was slower than the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz and also slower than the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll.
But his improvements have stopped short. Toto Wolff he is concerned about the budget ceiling. Carrying out the improvements is becoming a headache for the silver arrows.
This is what Wolff said in ‘Autosport’: “In the past, we didn’t even know how much a front suspension cost and today we need to know the purchase price of aluminum and then calculate how much the machining costs, how much it costs to cancel the one you don’t need, the price of each screw, the carbon…”.
“It’s complex and it’s gone so far that we have cost analysts and engineers who decide if buying that kilogram of aluminum is worth it“, says the Austrian boss.
He assures that the most creative part is suffering: “It is a difficult and painful process. People who should just be creative and have carte blanche can’t do it because now someone tells them if it’s doable or not.”
“We are more stuck than before because, if we were completely free, we would bring a different chassis. Now we have to carefully decide what we want to update. If we were free, we would probably have twice as many updates,” he said.
