F1 | Mercedes, Wolff: “The 2021 rules on the surface have penalized us”

In 2021, Mercedes saw the enormous performance advantage it had over Red Bull disappear. Milton Keynes has closed the gap with the dominators of recent years, coming to play on equal terms what is proving to be an exciting world championship to say the least, with two teams separated in the Drivers' and Constructors' standings by very few points (Mercedes has an advantage over Red Bull by eight points in the Drivers' standings and 12 in the Constructors').

Toto Wolff explained that Mercedes paid for the regulatory changes to the floor of the car, which led to a loss of load at the rear that Brackley had underestimated and which took some time to metabolize, and then dealt with it brilliantly, if as the package seems evo brought to Silverstone restored its shine Black Arrows, again competitive in all conditions.

“A determining factor in the fight for the world championship was the regulation change to the bottom of the car which impressed us much more than the Red Bull - Wolff's words to GPFans.com - We underestimated the load loss at the rear, it was our mistake. We thought we could compensate for the lack of load with the overall speed, we underestimated the lack of load, which is a difficult problem to deal with. The important thing is that we reacted, and little by little we are definitively solving the problem."