Mercedes boss Toto Wolff acknowledged the team's good results in Austria, but believes it needs a little more to fight at the front of the pack
Mercedes came away with a great result from the Austrian GP, even though the mechanics worked hard to fix the cars of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell after the two drivers collided in qualifying. The Germans' boss, Toto Wolff, came away satisfied with the points earned, but reiterated that there is still a little more to go.
"We are still missing two or three tenths of performance," Wolff said. "Overall, the car was much faster [on Sunday than on Saturday], but not fast enough to really challenge the cars in front," he added.
One of the W13's biggest problems is porpoising. Wolff, who has had a lot of headaches with the quiques, acknowledges that even though the car suffers from the problem, they have managed to solve most of it. The challenge now is to get more performance out of it.
"I think [the challenge now] is pure performance," he explained. "The porpoising I think we were able to solve. I think if we went back to Monaco and Baku, we wouldn't be great competitors, but we certainly wouldn't have the problems we saw a few weeks ago," he closed.
In the Drivers' World Championship, Russell and Hamilton are in fifth and sixth place, respectively. Mercedes, meanwhile, is third in the Constructors' standings, with 237 points.