{"id":365565,"date":"2025-12-23T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365565\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:08:10","slug":"toto-wolff-in-two-minds-after-mercedes-p2-in-2025-constructors-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365565\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff “in two minds” after Mercedes P2 in 2025 constructors’ championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercedes<\/a> Formula 1 team principal and CEO Toto Wolff has reflected on the 2025 season, admitting that walking away with second place in the constructors’ championship has left him in “two minds”.<\/p>\n

The Brackley outfit fought off Ferrari<\/a> and Red Bull for P2 in the standings after McLaren<\/a> clinched the title at the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

While Wolff was able to see the positives, he also noted that when he looks back at the last 10 years, the performance was not good enough.<\/p>\n

“I’m a little bit in two minds, because in 10 years, you look back at the stats and you can see a vice-world champion, P2 but the reality is that we didn’t achieve our goals,” he said during a team debrief video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We want to win. We want to win races. We want to be in the hunt for a world championship and hopefully win. And we didn’t. And that is the pain of the moment that it just wasn’t good enough.”<\/p>\n

Russell, who finished fourth in the drivers’ championship with 319 points, was joined in 2025 by rookie driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/a>, who replaced Lewis Hamilton<\/a> at the start of the year after the seven-time champion decided to move to Ferrari. The Italian driver secured seventh in the drivers’ standings with 150 points in his first season.<\/p>\n

\"George <\/p>\n

George Russell, Mercedes, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes<\/p>\n

Photo by: Andy Hone\/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mercedes clinched eight consecutive constructors’ championship titles from 2014 to 2021 and seven drivers’ titles during the same time frame with both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg<\/a>. But as the ground effect era was introduced in 2022, the Wolff-led team struggled to find a dominant package in comparison to Red Bull at the start of the new era and McLaren in the latter two seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The German squad now looks ahead to 2026 when a new wave of regulations is set to be introduced.<\/p>\n

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