Coming off a missed alternative for a win on the Mexican Grand Prix, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Staff Principal Toto Wolff mentioned that they achieved a strong consequence final trip and that the crew might be aiming to construct off of their latest progress on the Brazilian Grand Prix.
“We didn’t optimise each alternative in Mexico, however we nonetheless managed to attain good factors with Lewis’s nice drive to the rostrum and George’s P4 end.
“It was encouraging to be within the struggle for the win, displaying how far we’ve come because the begin of the yr. Whereas we’re all the time aiming for the highest spot, we ought to be happy with that progress and we’re aiming to maintain it going by the tip of the yr and into 2023.”
Wolff appears ahead to returning to Interlagos after the crew’s memorable weekend in Brazil final yr, when Lewis Hamilton made a robust cost to the win from out of place in tenth place. Since then, Brazil has bestowed honourary citizenship upon the influential British driver.
“Brazil kicks off the ultimate double-header of the season. Interlagos is an iconic monitor and the scene of so many particular F1 moments, together with Lewis’s spectacular efficiency final yr within the Dash and the Race.”
“We’re proud to be coming again to Brazil, with Lewis having been made an honorary citizen this week and having had such good recollections there prior to now.”
So far as the probabilities of incomes the victory the crew goals for, Wolff mentioned that he doesn’t anticipate the sort of tempo they confirmed in Mexico to proceed in Brazil. He’s nonetheless optimistic, nevertheless, that the crew may very well be within the operating once more earlier than the season’s finish.
“On paper, it shouldn’t be fairly as robust a circuit for us as Mexico, however regardless, we wish to sustain our momentum from latest races. So, we’ll maintain working onerous to hopefully be within the combine as soon as once more.”
