Toto Wolff reveals Mercedes plan to change car concept after agreeing with Lewis Hamilton over problems

Toto Wolff admits that Mercedes will need to completely change their car in order to challenge at the top of F1 again. Wolff made the comments after Lewis Hamilton expressed his frustration at the lack of progress at Mercedes, saying his team were on the «wrong track». Ad George Russell and Hamilton will start the season's first race — the Bahrain GP — sitting sixth and seventh respectively, after finishing more than six tenths behind Max Verstappen, who takes pole position for Sunday's curtain-raiser.

Bahrain Grand PrixAlonso pips Red Bulls in second practice in BahrainYESTERDAY AT 17:57 Speaking to Sky Sports F1 and the assembled media, Wolff said: «We are absolutely in the same choir [he and Hamilton]. »I don't think that this package is going to be competitive eventually. «We gave it our best go over the winter and now we all just need to regroup, sit down with the engineers, be totally non-dogmatic and ask what is the development direction we want to pursue in order to be able to win races.

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«At this team we blame the problem not the person. I have responsibilities. I need to fire myself if I want to do something.

»We got it wrong last year. We thought we could fix it by sticking to the concept of car but it didn't work out. So we just need to switch our focus on to what we believe is the right direction." Last season was