Toto Wolff believes that the Mercedes team have already made "big steps" on their road to recovery after an eye-opening start to the season. The eight-time Constructors' Champions have been looking to change the design direction of their W14 car after they were unable to make gains on the Red Bull team during the winter. The stern comments made in Bahrain were followed up by crunch meetings in between the first two grands prix of the year. Speaking after a mixed qualifying result in Jeddah for the team, Wolff provided a buoyant response when asked about the progress of the alternate development paths. “We’re making really big steps at the moment with our R&D, with our understanding in the [wind]tunnel. That is really big steps," Wolff told media, including RacingNews365.com . "We just needed to have the confirmation in Bahrain that we got it wrong, now we have that, and that’s why I would never write off anything."
“Now, is it realistic [after] today’s performance that we can talk about the world championship? No, it’s not, you’re a fool if you think that way. “Equally it’s motor racing and you must never give up and if we continue to do the big steps that we’ve already done in the last 10 days, then I think we’ll come to a stage where we’re really able to race for wins." Wolff was then asked to elaborate on the progress made in the last few days, to which the Mercedes boss responded: "Big steps, in relative performance to where we are even now, the kind of gains that are coming in our R&D and then in aero are much bigger than we've had over a long time. "We've unlocked some potential because we simply look at things from different angles now, we have a different perspective because of our learnings of the Bahrain test and the Bahrain race. "So there was no step back. On the contrary, it was immediately two steps forward."
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