Something has happened at Mercedes, and you could feel it two races ago. As Ferrari continues to fall and Red Bull stagnates, McLaren and Mercedes are steadily rising. The latter had a comfortable victory in Austria, but there was no luck at Silverstone…
We often reflect in the footnotes of our articles on the fact that every state in Formula 1 is only temporary. That no team or manufacturing giant is in the cycle to burn billions without results, without counting. The best example of this is the failure of Mercedes, which everyone knew could not last forever!
"It's strange to think that five races ago we couldn't even get a say in the podium fight, and it looked like this would be our third season without a race win. But now something suddenly turned around, things started to make sense. Our development direction is right, it's working, because we put the update on the car, and it immediately causes a tangible improvement, you can see it on the stopwatch. We've been waiting for this moment for two years...
And we still have some performance left in our bag, as we didn't prepare for the big launch at Silverstone, but at the Hungaroring and Spa Francorchamps. We won at the Red Bull Ring because the leaders crashed in front of us, but yesterday's victory came from strength to strength, it was a real victory. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were both leading the race, so it was a real pace, in all circumstances. We're back!" - the team leader stated optimistically.
