Toto Wolff as Fred Vasseur: “A new beginning in Miami. Now we look like heroes, who knows in 3 GPs”

Is the Mercedes dominance numbered? Toto Wolff is happy about the start of the season in which his Mercedes dominated the scene, taking three pole positions and three victories, including two doubles, with the third probably lost due to the unfortunate timing of the Safety Car coming out on track which put George Russell’s Sunday even more uphill. The Austrian team principal, however, between pre-tactics and a little awareness of the upcoming changes, is not yet claiming victory and in fact expects that his rivals will be able to quickly close the gap by reopening a championship which to date does not seem to be all that hard-fought. The first event to mark on the calendar is certainly that of April 9th, with the much talked about meeting in London which could bring changes to the rules and, therefore, erode the performance “treasure” of the W17 a little. But then there is Miami, the first race after the long break caused by the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs, as well as the first great opportunity for all the teams to start the race for updates that will most likely decide the outcome of the F1 World Championship. Not to mention that the concessions of the ADUO system will then arrive which Ferrari awaits with great desire, in addition to the new hot tests on the compression ratio, operational from next June. Toto Wolff speaks And it is precisely in relation to the appointment in Florida that Toto Wolff wanted to put his hands forward, almost quoting the words of his friend-rival Frederic Vasseur, who at Suzuka had explained how “a new championship” will begin from the next GP. “Miami will be a new start to the season – explains the Mercedes manager – because we will find out how the updates that the teams have introduced will work. How will we have optimized all the other systems? I think it will be exciting. The teams and drivers are starting to understand how to optimize these systems to their advantage, and we saw the first sign of this in Japan”. “During the first two races we were still dominant, but already in Suzuka it was no longer the case. We always warned people about this aspect, because we only had three GPs. At the moment we look like the heroes, but it is entirely possible that we will no longer be so in another three races”, concluded Toto Wolff.