Wolff: Brutal transparency within Mercedes

Quoted by GPFans, Wolff explained his team's methods and key factor: "Brutal transparency within the organisation. We need to be able to learn from our mistakes because there are just two options.

"You make a mistake and you cover it up or you are not in a safe place to talk about it or utilise it as an opportunity to develop and learn. I have heard a sentence that when it stings it sticks. Painful moments in the races are the ones that make us progress the most.

"In that respect, every weekend is about brutal analysis of what is happening in the days after the weekend and then utilising those learnings for the next race to come and for the future development of every component in the car.

"So it comes back down to the culture of really being transparent with each other because we share the same objective, creating a safe environment and using the power of the collective intelligence if the people in order to solve the problems."

Mercedes were left reeling after a humbling defeat last time out at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, a pointless haul is sure to have triggered soul searching among the World Champions in the aftermath of the weekend in Baku.

Wolff continued: "When you listen to a debrief today after a weekend where we finish first and second, you would think this is Williams debriefing from a weekend on a tenth place.

"I don't mean that in an arrogant way, it is just a culture that is always sceptical and we always believe we are not good enough and have to stay on our toes in order to maintain our success and that starts with sometimes going where it hurts.

"They say that if you don't go there then you are not going to improve as an organisation and it needs to start with all of us leading the organisation," added Wolff who, under his watch at the helm of the team, has assembled the most potent winning machine in F1 history.