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Here is the positive thanks to the admin of Mercedes AMG Passion Club for something finally positive about this crap weekend !
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There are no positives for the remainder of the calendar for Mercedes. The only positive is that every weekend that goes by, we draw closer to the conclusion of this god forsaken ruleset. No steady development, Kimi underdelivering under pressure since Monaco and dumb strategy decisions. I think the W17 will be a flop with the current technical team.
It's obvious that Kimi will continue next year. Toto would never replace him for now because that would be admitting his mistake in putting a boy in F1, thinking he was the next Max Verstappen...
Kimi will definitely improve next year with a new and different car, he'll be able to improve significantly compared to Russell. He's a very very very good driver (just like Russell, Leclerc, Bortoleto, etc).
But he's also lucky. If any other driver coming from F2 (Frederick Vesti, for example) had performed like that, he would have been under much greater pressure and probably wouldn't have continued the following year.
I honestly don’t understand why the upgrades are not working this year…
To my knowledge all the upgrades since 2013 that were brought always worked and our team was very good at improving throughout the year…
The only exception is this year, 2025… could this be a real issue for the future ?
Does it show a lack of quality in our technical & aero departments ?
It could be that the technical team never fully grasped these rules completely and are still putting fires from the zero side-pod design choices that never got dialed out. I am skeptical of the W17 until proven otherwise.
