Wolff reveals NEW 'mindset' over Mercedes form

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is confident that his team can turn a new page and rediscover their form across the rest of the 2024 season.

The team are without a victory in nearly two years since George Russell won at the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix.

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2024 has presented the same issues to the team, with Jeddah proving the W15 has a problem in the high-speed corners as they struggled to keep up with McLaren.

But while the team does not have the answers right now, Wolff has stated he has had a change of mindset to remain calm and believes the team are in a better place than before.

Wolff: I've changed my mindset

Speaking with Autosport, he said: “I've changed my mindset. I don't think that additional pressure on all of us makes it better.

“I think we have a problem with the physics. It is not by lack of trying or by the mindset or the motivation or energies. All of that is there, and I can see the buzz in the organisation.

“As racers, when we have such [disappointing] results, you're feeling down, but we're trying to change that with the right motivation for the week that comes. That's why we are believing that we can turn this around. We believe that our organisation can dig ourselves out. I'm 100% sure we can.”

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The Austrian added that while performances are similar to previous seasons, the team’s understanding of the car has moved on drastically.

“We had so many unknowns in the last year,” he said. “Where we started, we said, ‘okay this could be a reason’ and ‘this could be a reason’ and ‘this could be a reason.’ And we fixed that.

“I can see from the sensors that we have what we needed. But there is still this behaviour of the car in a certain speed range, where our sensors and simulation say this is where we should have the downforce, and we are not having it.

“This team has not been overconfident. We are probably the other way around. We see that glass half empty always. And that attitude stays, but this is also the attitude to fix it.”

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