Mercedes is subject to “swings in performance” as the Toto Wolf Rules continue

Mercedes Team boss Toto Wolf has warned that despite winning a comfortable win in Formula 1, his squad is not going ahead of itself. Canadian Grand Prix On the surface of a warm track.

Mercedes in Russell’s hands looked like a contender to win in Montreal from the first lap of W16 practice, and Britain duly defeated Red Bull Max Verustapane Along with McLaren’s Championship leader, he described as one of the best intervals of his life Oscar piastry Further in the third.

Russell and Mercedes were also strong in Canada last year, when they polled over the same time as Vastapane, but lost to a win, so raw performance did not come as surprise. But the heat of Mercedes has a weak tire weakness, so when the track temperature increased on Sunday, the Bracky Squad still did not believe whether its driver could face challenges from behind.

But Russell felt to improve the race to improve the race to improve the red bull on tire management and reduce the race to cover Vastapane’s undercut attempt. During this time, Andrea Kimi Antoneley Also gave his best F1 performance so far to claim Piastry to claim her young woman Grand Prix Podium.

A strong Canada form was expected, but was not permanent in the position of the track reaching 50 degrees. A clear connection seems to be Mercedes’ new rear suspension geometry, which was introduced in Emola, then taken amid the suspicion of correlation from the car and reused in Montreal to help keep the tire under control.

But in this advanced phase of the rules, there was no such thing as a silver pill, the principal of the team preferred to be cautious at the successes of any kind of hot weather.

“We had 50 degrees of track temperature, and we have been prominent,” Wolf said. “We have some things changing on the car. We have a new rear suspension. I’m really happy how the team has managed, but I think you need to see the track layout.

“Montreal was always good for us. It lacks specific high -speed corners, where we suffer more in summer. It is one. And number two here is quite smooth asphalt, which is less abusive and therefore less harmful to our car, which is suffering from rear tires fall and overheating.”

Montreal’s unique stop-start track layout means that Mercedes will not be very confident in the rest of the rest of the summer race. Russell won in Austria last year, although the controversial conflict between Max Vastapane and was assisted Lando NorisBut Mercedes was then the third highest team.

“Never confident,” Wolf said. “Because the performance is still swinging. We have seen last year that it was not close to some tracks, which was close to the other, but we dominated throughout the weekend. And it is a little pattern that we have seen here. And Austria is a different ball game, different track layouts, different challenges.

“We expect a little more tire overheating, considering the track temperature, but we are not confusing that it really adapts our car’s strength in the same way as it happened last year. But for most circuits, we know that this is a challenge, and that is why it is very good for us to see both of us.

It appears as if the update rear suspension from Emola provides a benefit after taking off the car in Monaco and Spain, and now it seems to live here.

“We brought new rear geometry to the particular problem that we had, heat on the back surface,” Wolf explained.

“We were not quite sure about the results in Emola, because they were worse than our expectations. And then taking it down, I think it was right to do it, and bring it here because hoping the direction of development is correct.

“But in these types of rules, you never know whether you are on development land or not. The correlation has been difficult, especially for us, but for many other teams. There is never a magic solution that transforms the car into a prominent winner from a podium car.

Additional Reporting Ben Hunt