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Despite the fact that Mercedes finished first at the French Grand Prix, George Russell believes the squad is experimenting with their setups excessively throughout race weekends.
Mercedes has been urged by George Russell to cut back on the number of experiments they use in practise.
Mercedes nearly won every F1 championship between 2014 and 2021, but they have since slipped behind Ferrari and Red Bull and are failed to claim a victory this season.
The W13 also had significant porpoising issues earlier in the season, which forced Mercedes to make frequent upgrades to Grands Prix and try out various settings in an effort to find the optimal combination that will restore them to the top of the winner’s dais.
Russell placed third in qualifying, 1.259 seconds behind polesitter Charles Leclerc, even though Mercedes had their best finish of the year so far at Paul Ricard with Lewis Hamilton finishing second and Russell third.
Russell claimed that Mercedes were harming their probability of victory by trying too many new things on race weekends as a result of this gap.
“When you’re so far off the pace, you want to try everything you can to try and close that gap,” Russell told media including RacingNews365.com.
“Maybe that’s a lesson for us, that we just need to almost focus on ourselves and really try to focus on getting the most out of the car, rather than experimenting too much.
“But we need to experiment at this moment to see what works and what doesn’t work. It’s a little bit tricky at the moment.”
Russell is hopeful about Mercedes’ future development
Russell expressed his hope regarding the team’s progress after seeing that Mercedes appears to have fully resolved the porpoising issues the W13 experienced earlier in the season and the Silver Arrows have achieved podium places in four of the previous five races.
“I think we’re definitely optimistic because we feel like we do have a direction to keep chipping away at and we do think we will make good progress,” said Russell.
“Qualifying is the day where you have that clearest comparison to your rivals, and it’s clearly a bit difficult when we see how far we were from pole.
“But [the race] is where we need to judge, I do think we have a faster car than we have done on average this season.”
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