Mercedes Components 1 group principal and CEO Toto Wolff has mirrored on the 2025 season, admitting that strolling away with second place within the constructors’ championship has left him in “two minds”.
The Brackley outfit fought off Ferrari and Crimson Bull for P2 within the standings after McLaren clinched the title on the Singapore Grand Prix.
Whereas Wolff was capable of see the positives, he additionally famous that when he appears again on the final 10 years, the efficiency was not adequate.
“I am slightly bit in two minds, as a result of in 10 years, you look again on the stats and you may see a vice-world champion, P2 however the actuality is that we did not obtain our targets,” he mentioned throughout a group debrief video.
“We wish to win. We wish to win races. We wish to be within the hunt for a world championship and hopefully win. And we did not. And that’s the ache of the second that it simply wasn’t adequate.”
Russell, who completed fourth within the drivers’ championship with 319 factors, was joined in 2025 by rookie driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who changed Lewis Hamilton initially of the yr after the seven-time champion determined to maneuver to Ferrari. The Italian driver secured seventh within the drivers’ standings with 150 factors in his first season.
George Russell, Mercedes, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
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Mercedes clinched eight consecutive constructors’ championship titles from 2014 to 2021 and 7 drivers’ titles throughout the identical time-frame with each Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. However as the bottom impact period was launched in 2022, the Wolff-led group struggled to discover a dominant package deal compared to Crimson Bull initially of the brand new period and McLaren within the latter two seasons.
The German squad now appears forward to 2026 when a brand new wave of rules is about to be launched.
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