Mercedes Team Principal Expects Red Bull To Start 2024 In Lead By 'Couple Of Tenths'

Toto Wolff suggested Red Bull has had more time to work on their 2024 car, which could result in gains of a "couple of tenths,"

Red Bull Racing F1 team had their Drivers' and Constructors' Championship titles sealed with five races still to go until the end of the 2023 season.

Being in this position of having achieved all the main goals allowed the team from Milton Keynes to focus on the 2024 development car sooner than other teams. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff told the media:

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The Austrian has experience with such a situation as he achieved eight consecutive Constructors' Championship titles in a quite dominant manner as well. He explained:

The Mercedes team principal suggests the headstart that Red Bull has on other teams in terms of aero development could be equal to a couple of tenths, which is a great margin.

On the other hand, the Red Bull Racing team principal suggested he expects other teams to catch up as the development curve flattens in upcoming seasons. Wolff also addressed this theory:

As teams keep developing and evolving their concepts, they are essentially supposed to reach the end of the development curve when there is not much else to improve on their cars within the given regulations.

While theory suggests that other teams should be able to catch up with Red Bull, it is not clear whether we will see the development curve flattening in the upcoming two seasons. The Mercedes team principal added:

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