Wolff concedes Mercedes' disappointing Silverstone result was down to "a poor performance all around from us"

After the Brackley-based outfit collected only a single point at Silverstone, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff conceded the disappointing Silverstone result was down to "a poor performance all around from us."

Mercedes had a challenging weekend at Silverstone. The Brackley-based outfit struggled for pace on Friday, but George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli still managed to secure fourth and seventh place in qualifying.

With the race having taken place in changeable conditions, there were several key decision points that derailed Mercedes’ day at Silverstone.

George Russell pitted on the formation lap which was a few laps too early given the wet track surface in Sector 3. It meant that the Briton lost valuable race time in the opening stages of the race.

His team-mate Kimi Antonelli pitted for slicks during the virtual safety car, but it also proved a bit too early and as he elected to put on hards he massively struggled for tyre temperatures.

Russell and Antonelli switched back to the Intermediate tyre as heavy rain fell after 10 laps before several Virtual Safety Car and Safety Car interruptions brought racing to a halt.

After the action got back underway, the Bologna-born driver was hit from behind by the Racing Bull of Isack Hadjar who was unsighted by spray. The subsequent diffuser damage forced the Italian into an early retirement.

In the meantime, Russell made it back into the points, he once again made an early switch to slicks as the track dried. After rejoining, he spun at Turn 10 and lost ground. He fought back into the top-10 but could only bring home a solitary point in P10.

Reflecting on Mercedes' tough afternoon at the British Grand Prix, team principal Toto Wolff stated: "We are all in this together and that was a poor performance all around from us today.

"We made successive decisions which weren’t right, and we will be evaluating what we did, when, and why, to ensure we improve from this. We have to take this result on the chin but must make sure we do not repeat the errors we made today.

"The first call to take the slick tyre on the formation lap was wrong. From there, we spiralled from bad to worse. We didn’t opt to split strategies and, if we had, Kimi’s race may have been different.

"He was unfortunate to suffer race ending damage after the Safety Car but he shouldn’t have been back in the pack and at risk of that. We didn’t fit the right dry tyre at either stop, opting for the Hard compound which suffered a challenging warm-up.

"All in all, that was a tough day and we need to bounce back in the final two races before the summer break," concluded Wolff.