Can Mercedes turn its dire situation around and start winning in F1 again?

30 Jan

Charlen Raymond

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Lewis Hamilton (left) and George Russell with the Mercedes F1 team at the final race of the 2023 season in Abu Dhabi. (Clive Rose / Getty Images)

Ahead of the 2022 Formula 1 season, George Russell, upon joining the Mercedes team from Williams, made a now-famous comment that the team's car, the W12, looked "fast".

The zero-sidepod design and technical direction the team undertook at the advent of the new technical regulation overhaul in 2022 would always have been a slippery slope for any team. Sadly, the Mercedes team slipped drastically.

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