Wolff likens W13 to ‘kangaroo’, drivers ‘not happy’

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says the W13 is still bouncing away like a “kangaroo”, leaving Lewis Hamilton and George Russell unimpressed.

This time around Hamilton was the driver able to extract more performance from the W13, qualifying P6 for the first ever Miami Grand Prix, but Russell failed to make Q3.

The W13 looked a real handful for Russell in particular, the Briton lamenting the bouncing as he dropped out in Q2.

Wolff then confirmed the situation has not improved as Mercedes slipped from the highs of topping FP2 to returning to a point where the drivers were not happy with the W13.

It's P6 for LH in Miami. And a solid starting position for what could be a crazy first #MiamiGP!

George will line up P12 after a trickier Saturday, but we've seen him have some strong Sundays already this season. pic.twitter.com/GL9mxIFCuv

— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) May 7, 2022

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Asked by Sky F1 if the car is handling better now, Wolff replied: “No, not at all.

“I think we have seen a performant car yesterday in FP2 that was real, we were able to put it in the sweet spot and today in FP3 we were completely off with the experiments we did.

“Creeped a little bit back, but the car is still bouncing like a kangaroo, the drivers are not happy with it, and you can see that is the reason why we are off.”

Interestingly though, Wolff said Mercedes’ slide back down the order on