Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted he would prefer a competitive engine that has reliability concerns rather than the opposite scenario.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Brackley-based squad has sprung out of the blocks this season with the most competitive package, winning seven out of the nine grands prix staged so far.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, its impressive car performance has been countered at times by reliability issues, which caused George Russell and Kimi Antonelli to DNF in Canada and Barcelona, respectively.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
But Wolff outlined that Mercedes has the luxury of dialling back how intensely it runs the engine as it pursues a fix to the concern.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think we are such a performance organisation on the chassis and engine side, we want to squeeze everything out,\u201d\u00a0Wolff told media including RacingNews365d.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I’d rather dial back, a little bit, something that is really good, and fix some of the reliability gremlins, rather than running behind on performance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So far, we’ve won seven races out of nine. And I’d rather have this than slow and unreliable.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Mercedes was defeated for the second time this year last time out in Barcelona, where Ferrari and Charles Leclerc climbed to the top step of the podium.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At the start of the race, Antonelli lost track position to Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton with a poor start, a picture that was frequent at the start of the year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, Wolff insisted the bad getaway at Silverstone was down to driver error.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like more driver excitement getting out of the blocks, with both similar,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I’m saying that with the limited amount of information that I have.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted he would prefer a competitive engine that has reliability concerns rather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-792163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}