Toto Wolff admitted that Mercedes’ real problem is that what the engineers see in the wind tunnel doesn’t correlate with the car’s behavior on track.
The British outfit has been struggling in the first three races of the season and didn’t reach the hoped results. What’s more, a double DNF in Melbourne made things even more difficult for them.
“When I look at the positives, I think we took many potential root causes out of the equation.
“We weren’t sure about our suspension. We weren’t sure about the stiffness of our gearbox carrier. We had a vibrating steering rack. All of those things have disappeared.
“But fundamentally, whatever we see in the tunnel doesn’t correlate with what’s happening on the track.”
Wolff continued by saying that the team’s spirit is positive in the sense that everybody wants to improve and make the car better.
“It is not a single person that says, ‘I would interpret that data in this way’ and because of a dogma, because of dogmatism, we’re not making any progress.
“I don’t see dogmatism. I see an open environment where people share, where people take themselves by the nose and say, ‘Maybe in my area we are making mistakes’.”