Mercedes need to rethink their car to give Lewis Hamilton a chance of winning a record eighth Formula One title, or take George Russell to a first, team boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday.
"I'm sure we can win races this season, but it's really the mid- and long-term that we need to look at and which decisions we need to take," he said.
"We gave it our best shot and the moment comes when the stopwatch comes out. And that showed us that it's simply not good enough. We haven't got enough downforce and we need to find solutions to fix that." Wolff said it might be possible to "turn the ship around" this year and he did not want to discount anything while remaining realistic."We've got a different bodywork coming, it won't be the same as other people's and it won't be the same as what we've got," he told reporters.
Mercedes-powered Aston Martin, who ended last season seventh overall, set the pace in practice and had double world champion Fernando Alonso qualify fifth. "They gained two seconds in half a year and their car is half ours, from the engine and gearbox and rear suspension and the same wind tunnel," said Wolff.Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Christian Radnedge
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