Feb.11 (GMM) Toto Wolff has performed down expectations about Mercedes’ 2025 Method 1 season.
After reaching near-unprecedented title success with Lewis Hamilton till 2021, the crew and the seven-time world champion slumped within the new ‘floor impact period’.
Hamilton, 40, has fled to Ferrari.
“I don’t deny the issues we’ve been having,” crew boss and co-owner Wolff instructed La Repubblica newspaper.
“However wanting carefully on the information, you may see that we weren’t the one ones in 2024 to have fluctuating performances.”
As for a way Hamilton will fare in purple, Wolff answered: “When he has a aggressive automotive, Lewis is all the time the perfect. We weren’t capable of assure it to him.
“We’re speaking a few driver who may give quite a bit to Method 1 and the crew that hosts him, I’ve no doubts about that.”
Wolff has changed Hamilton together with his teenage protege Kimi Antonelli, because the Austrian defined that he was decided to not “repeat the error” he made by letting the-then equally teenaged Max Verstappen get snapped up by Purple Bull.
The crew boss says he’ll hold the younger Italian “underneath my umbrella” to maintain the stress off as he adapts in 2025.
“Each Kimi and the crew are conscious that they need to not count on something earlier than 2026,” Wolff stated. “On that aspect of the field, Valtteri Bottas has additionally returned to try Kimi, regulate him.
“If one thing occurs earlier than 2026, it will likely be a present,” he added. “I wish to see an Italian driver win once more – it’s been a very long time since that occurred and could be an important story to put in writing.”
