Toto Wolff believes "Ferrari had the best car until summer break"

Toto Wolff believes “Ferrari had the best car until summer break”. Toto Wolff feels F1-75 was "best car until summer break".

In 18 rounds of the 2022 Formula 1 season, a Red Bull car has seen the checkered first flag 14 times. The other four races were won by Scuderia Ferrari, and for now Mercedes has not been able to score a single victory in the 2022 F1 championship.

Even if the Brackley team would be able to win at least one race in the last four rounds of the campaign, Austin, Mexico City, Interlagos and Yas Marina, the year would be extremely disappointing: despite starting with trumpet blasts and eye-catching simulator performances, the concept of tapered sidepods brought to the track for the W13 car didn’t work as expected and only in the second part of the championship did the team manage to patch up some issues, especially in terms of race pace.

However, Mercedes’ recovery was not so strong as to affect the Red Bull-Ferrari duo, the only teams able to win a race this year. If we take a look at the rankings, the use of the term “duo” seems to seek a fight that has never actually existed, but the F1-75 at the beginning of the year was at least on par with the RB18 for a long time.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is also convinced of this: “In every sport, cycles are destined to end sooner or later, and this has happened to us too, there is nothing strange. It ended because we got the car wrong, but at the same time we are confident we can solve our problems. We didn’t do a job as good as Ferrari and Red Bull. The F1-75 was in my opinion the fastest car until the summer break, but it wasn’t able to turn that advantage into points,” the Austrian told Channel 4 – “We are third, it’s not a drama, it’s still a respectable result, because we could have gone even further back. Now we simply have to solve our problems, also because we want to get back to fighting for race wins and for the championship. We don’t have the right to win all the championships, because that would be silly“ – Toto Wolff concluded.