See When Lewis isnt doing experiments he bests Russell. Hmmmmmm. Lewis is going to the better team anyway. Merc is a mid field team now.

Merc will smash the competition in 2026

@@Obviously-by6jp its still a ground effects era. Doubtful

Mark my words 2024 and 2025 are gonna be the most exciting seasons we've ever seen. 6-10 drivers all fighting for the win

Great job gents

its looking promising for once

​@@menzi54 is it?

@@veezee__04 well both seemed happier in the car

They have accepted where they are and trying to add performance rather than chase the perfect setup this is a step forward

It’s too early to wake up for you guys at least keep struggling for two more years😂

He talks like a man that has a ‘big ting’

Interesting that you perceived Miles' questions to have a "pushy tone". Hmmm, wonder why you thought that? Is there anything different about this host?

@@spauldingjones5763what’s different is that it is indeed not the same person so it’s a different person

@@thurbine2411 It's a different host each time but you've clearly missed the point.

@@spauldingjones5763 I think I get your point but I think you are just trying to find something you see as problematic in his comment and not try to understand what he means

Don’t get your hopes up it’s gonna be a downgrade😂

That's RBR, I believe (world champions)

Wondering why a professional interviewer would ask that question other than wanting to be mean spirited and rubbing salt into the wound? The answer would probably be quite boring whereby Mercedes provide the PU and the current regulations heavily favour aero design which McLaren (and to some extent Aston Martin) have done a better job than their PU supplying rival this year.

Mercedes has a pretty good PU team that heavily contributed to the dominating era but the engine regulations are pretty old now and well studied by all manufacturers. Hence we are not seeing the marginal gains we used to see from them and it has become more of an aero design battle which they clearly struggled since the cost cap. The 2026 regulations is going to be key in deciding who dominates the next era. Those don't come under the regular cost cap so Mercedes might have a shot if they don't fumble it. But so does Ferrari and Honda. Renault not so sure.

@@Rustylad12 100% agree

EX world champion it’s Max now the raining world champion 😉

they told him on the radio there might be a penalty.

They told him to push, but his battery was finished

Well, Lewis will have a faster car next year.

Miles

What toto said is when the drivers are next to each other you can choose the strategies. You dont feel forced to split them. You still often will split of course because of safety car potential etc

You think it’s easy fixing a terrible car? You think Red Bull got easy their supremacy? It’s thousand and thousands hours of hard work

Because FIA regulations require every team to use minimum two compounds, and it wouldn't have been Softs as they only lasted about 10 laps, so Hards are the only option.

Naa, guys you really need to start putting some effort towards actually learning how this sport works... Especially if you're gonna level this kinda criticism to the team. If it's not clear the workings and you're still confused after watching the race and this debrief, phrase your questions better, ask the community to clarify tings for you. In the meantime, start reading up leading to a race weekend, lots of social media accounts that break down race operations and strategy tailored to each specific track. F1 itself puts out a lot of educational content, take advantage of that. You need it. Watch races, follow how they develop, look at the timing screens - they'd have shown you even on the favourable medium tyre, George couldn't close up to Lewis in the first stint. Plenty of drivers were on the hards for the 2nd stint and they all faired okay, Lewis was struggling with the hards but was still putting up good times in the 1st stint. GR had a bad weekend, it happens, he will bounce back.

only this year ?

​@@Jerrydan1 W13 and W14 did a lot better in comparison (so far)

Temperature in particular seems to through you guys for a loop.

Long may it continue

How is fighting a redbull and having better deg than Ferrari being in the midfield

Red Bull had a downfall Ferrari are still in a downfall Mclaren recently pull themselves out of that situation this happens to every team this is the nature of F1

There's nothing wrong with being a midfield team! Mercedes are a really solid midfield team.

Oh sure, it's definitely the 5 people of color they hired and not the 200 engineers they lost to RedBull and McLaren. Don't say racist nonsense like this, Mercedes lost their designer, Costa, in 2019 and they went downhill when his final design in 2020 was gone. Mercedes had an overpowered engine, and Toto Wolff let his best engineers get poached by the competition.