Toto Wolff explained some of the issues seen during F1 Pre-Season Testing in Bahrain.
“I always worry, sometimes for the right reasons, sometimes for the wrong reasons, but pre-season testing is always exciting because you always find the hair in the soup, things that are not good and we had quite some struggle in the first few days,” he said.
“It’s not a matter of complacency, there’s a reason why there are not many teams winning World Championships or doing it with consecutive championships. It’s an organization that needs to stay energized and motivated at all times, and that’s not trivial. The shakedown, if it’s done in the right conditions, allows you to understand a little bit more, but our failures in the first days were not down to doing or not doing a shakedown,”
“On the job list is that we will crunch the data, try to understand where we performed well, and where not, where we had good correlation to our simulations and the tunnel and where not, and just generally, it’s like sleeping overnight on an idea. Next day you wake up more intelligent.”