Yeah Mercedes wants to come face to face with Red Bull as happened in 2020 with the fight between max verstappen and lewis hamiltonThings have to change a lot. so much that George Russell is quite pessimistic.
In Imola the silver arrows will carry a significant package of improvements with the aim of catching up with Aston Martin and closing the gap with Red Bull. But the young Englishman believes that “they will not change the world.”
“Imola is a new weekend, we will have some new parts on the car. Hopefully that will be positive. It’s not going to change the world for us any time soon, but I hope it’s a step in the right direction,” said the young driver.
“I think we can’t get carried away, we have to talk at the track. We have to see how the upgrades work when we get there. Fingers crossed they’re bright, but we’ll only know that on Friday morning,” said Russell, sixth. in the world championship with 40 points behind Carlos Sainz.
Of course, this package of improvements will not be the definitive one. Just a few “first steps”, according to what the team pointed out: “We hope it will be faster, we hope it will be better in terms of qualifying and race pace”.
“The key is that we not only want to improve the lap time, but we want to move in a different direction of development. We believe that In the long term we will have a better chance of fighting to win races and world-wide”, commented a member of Mercedes to ‘Motorsport’.
