Mercedes boss, Toto Wolff admits that the group’s present difficulties have made him much more conscious of how a lot he misses Niki Lauda.
With the season barely begun its all palms on deck at Brackley because the German group admits it received it fallacious and units about recovering misplaced floor as rapidly as attainable.
The struggles of final season and once more this yr have Wolff lacking his ‘rock’, Niki Lauda, along with his ‘no-nonsense’, ‘can do’ strategy.
“Niki’s missed all these years as a result of Niki at all times simplified issues to essentially what mattered,” mentioned Wolff when requested if the present scenario has highlighted how a lot the three-time world champion is missed at Mercedes.
“I am having to assume what would he have mentioned, and the way would he have positioned issues,” he added, “the 2 of us labored effectively collectively in that sense that typically oversimplification can lead you straight to the outcomes.
“However there are many nuances,” he continued. “This can be a technical sport, so perhaps my position was to translate it in a method that we really have been capable of execute it within the automobile design. However that is quite simple: the stopwatch by no means lies, and we see on the info the place we’re lacking and that must be corrected.”
