Mercedes has taken stock of 2022. From a 2022 in which the results have not been far from what was expected by them or their rivals, with a car that was practically undriveable in the first rounds of the course that caused Lewis Hamilton to harshly criticize the car.
that I leave them out of any title fight at the earliest opportunity. From both the drivers’ and constructors’ title, something that was like going to buy bread for a team that since 2014 had done nothing but win with practically no opposition… until Max Verstappen, in the last race of 2021, left Hamilton without his eighth world title.
Now, they believe they will be back on top in 2023 after have learned from “failure”. This has been said by Mike Elliot, one of the great names of Mercedes, in ‘Racer’.
“The interesting thing is to see the reaction in Brazil”
He has even paraphrased Niki Lauda: “As he said, you learn more from failure than from success. This year has been a great learning experience. The most interesting thing is to see the reaction after Brazil. It seemed that we had won the World Cup… and it was a race!
“This showed the level of passion and the desire to win again. That will get us there. If we can turn all of that into momentum we will be in good position”, insists.
And he says what was the moment, and the key, for the ‘resurrection’ of Mercedes throughout the year: “Barcelona. We resigned there much of the performance from the wind tunnel to reduce bounce.
“The car was drivable height-wise…”
“The car was drivable height-wise… but we gave up a lot performance from an aerodynamic point of view”, he says.
