Red Bull are on a high after their double victory spree at their home track, with their ace Max Verstappen the team lead both championships but Toto Wolff's warns the Mercedes boss ahead of the British Grand Prix where the World Champs aim to "blow everyone away..."
The Formula 1 World Champions are on the ropes after the ninth round of the scheduled 23 races this season but they far from throwing in the towel, quite the opposite says Wolff.
Mercedes have won every British Grand Prix since 2013, only Sebastian Vettel breaking the streak in 2018 for Ferrari. It's their home turf as much as Red Bull Ring is to their title rivals. Last year Hamiton won, Max Verstappen was second.
"This is so far from over," he told F1.com. "I don’t know what is he, 32 points behind Max? that’s a DNF away. And he’s in the hunt again. And if we look at Baku and the potential, and look at the other races, overall, we need to up our game, make less mistakes, and continue to understand the car better and then we are massively in the hunt."
It is no secret that Mercedes staff are being poached by their rivals, some pundits suggesting these disruptions are filtering down to the team.
But Wolff insists: “Morale in the team is good, we could see the improvement in race pace was from last weekend so we are making progress and eventually we will be competing for the win again.
In a season in which the margins are tiny and slight errors punished, Hamilton did himself no favours when he damaged his Mercedes in Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix. He lost a chunk of pace that made his chase of Verstappen almost futile.
Wolff explained: “I think the result probably looks worse in terms of pace than the reality. We were stuck behind the McLaren, which cost us a lot of time, otherwise, our pace was good, maybe not enough to win the race but right up there at the front, which is a step forward.
“Lewis picked up some damage at Turn 10 – I don't think he was running particularly hard over the kerb, it was just a piece that fell away – so we need to understand what happened.
"Overall, I think damage limitation, maybe. I think we’re going to Silverstone, blow everyone away, finish one and two and 30 seconds away from everybody else,” declared the Mercedes boss 'with tongue in cheek' adds the report.
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