Horner ‘cannot believe’ that Mercedes won’t develop 2021 F1 car

Horner ‘cannot believe’ that Mercedes won’t develop 2021 F1 car

 

 

 
Despite suffering a fourth consecutive defeat to Red Bull as Max Verstappen dominated the Styrian Grand Prix, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff reiterated that Mercedes would continue to stick to its development plan for 2022 and would not be introducing any more upgrades to its 2021 challenger.Mercedes has now fallen 40 points behind Red Bull in the constructors’ championship, while Verstappen holds an 18-point advantage over Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ standings.”300x1After the race, Hamilton stressed Mercedes needs an “upgrade of some sort” to be able to beat Red Bull this year, but Wolff backed the team’s decision to stop developing its 2021 car, insisting the title race is “far from over” with 15 races still to go.In contrast, Red Bull is continuing to bring more updates for its RB16B and Horner said he believes Mercedes will do the same.Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Why Leclerc wasn’t penalised for first-lap Gasly clash at F1 Styrian GPaccImages.createImage(); Why Leclerc wasn’t penalised for first-lap Gasly clash at F1 Styrian GP“What Mercedes do is very much their business, so we’re just focused on ourselves,” Horner said.“We know Toto loves to throw the light somewhere else, so I cannot believe they’ll go through the rest of this year without putting a single component on the car.Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Red Bull warned Verstappen’s F1 victory burnout “will not be tolerated” againaccImages.createImage(); Mercedes won’t upgrade 2021 F1 car despite Hamilton’s plea“All we can do is focus on our own job. Of course it is a balancing act between this year and next year, but if that means we’ve got to work a bit harder than the other teams, we’re fully up for it.”2845742.0064.jpg accImages.createImage();Red Bull is enjoying its best spell in F1 since its last title-winning campaign in 2013 and Horner feels that is down to a combination of finally making a strong start to the season and being able to continually improve its car.“For the first time in quite a while we’ve come out of the blocks this year with a competitive car and we’ve managed to optimise that and tune it,” he explained.“You’re at the top of the curve with these cars and into marginal gains. When you look at the new car for next year, every time it goes through a development cycle it’s significant steps.”4“It’s getting the balance right between marginal gains for this year and big steps for next year. But that’s no different to how it’s been in the past.”But Horner warned there are no guarantees Red Bull’s dominant form will continue into next weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix and beyond.“We’ve just got to keep turning the screw, keep our heads down, keep doing what we’re doing, keep doing the basics well,” he said.”5“To have won the last four races across the types of circuits we’ve had is the best run we’ve had since 2013.“And we’re back here next weekend and we saw last year that even though you had two races at the same circuit the second race can be quite different to the first with rack conditions, weather, etc.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(“2“We’ve just got to take each race one by one and try to optimise our performance.” 

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