Wolff said Mercedes’ lack of pace was “baffling” and “unacceptable”. “We will have a fundamentally different car next year and this confirms that is the right thing to do,” Wolff said. After returning to Formula 1 in 2010 as a constructor, Mercedes won every drivers’ championship from 2014-2020 and the constructors’ title from 2014-2021. Mercedes were at a loss to explain their lack of performance in Brazil, but both Wolff and Hamilton said they believed they had run the car too high on the bumpy surface of the Interlagos track. Wolff said: “We ran the car way too high and you carry that on. It’s not a rear wing or the car being slightly too high.

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