Mercedes has so far won one Grand Prix (in Canada) in the 2025 season. The team of team boss and CEO Toto Wolff usually have to acknowledge their inferiority to McLaren - like almost everyone else on the grid. The chances of that changing in the coming months are extremely slim.
Many teams have designated the summer break as a turning point in their season. From now on, the focus is on 2026, when the new technical regulations are introduced in the competition.
Designing and producing updates disrupts the aforementioned process for next year, so almost all teams choose not to make any more changes to the cars this season.
Mercedes focuses on 2026
That also applies to Mercedes, as Wolff told among others GPblog in Hungary. "No, there's no more upgrades. I think everything is completely focused and concentrated on next year. Now we know that we have a more stable platform that's going give us some goodness. I think let's see how we can optimise tracks and engineering in terms of finding the right setups that suit it. And then to be as competitive as we can."
The past few weeks had been tough for George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli with the W16. An update seems to have been introduced somewhere that made the car more difficult to handle. It is now clear what the issue was, the German team already said goodbye to it in Hungary.
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