Toto Wolff: “Playing hunter and being hunted. »

With “only” two victories in four races, never Mercedes had not been so shaken up by other teams at the start of the season since 2014.

The return to Europe promises to be important for all the teams with the arrival of technical improvements on the single-seaters. What potentially strengthens the fight between Mercedes and Ferrari, and why not Red Bull, who Toto wolff always monitors.

“This battle is a totally different situation than what we have seen over the past three years, specifies the director of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport.

You just have to adapt to the challenge and that's what we do, play hunter and be hunted. At the moment there are two top teams fighting for the championship and I think Red Bull will also join this club.

The small gaps that we are seeing this season are felt in the very tight nature of the drivers' championship and even more so with our only point lead in the teams' championship. The battle will continue until the end of the season and we will be prepared for it. »

Mercedes advantage in Catalonia?

One year after the famous clash between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in the first round of the Spanish Grand Prix, Mercedes will return to a Catalan track where pre-season testing took place a few months ago.

With his duo Hamilton – Bottas, the team with the star intends to continue the momentum of the victory of the Finnish driver in Russia, who had got the better of the two SF70Hs at the start in Sochi.

“Barcelona will be an interesting race since our pre-season tests there were not spectacular,” continues Toto Wolff. We take the races one after the other.

If we do the best job possible from Friday onwards, then we will be able to win and fight with Ferrari. »