Relishing the Challenge in Bahrain

We're Relishing the Challenge

It’s been an intense and busy winter preparing for the new F1 season, but now the start of the 2023 campaign has officially arrived.

The Bahrain Grand Prix weekend comes just days after the three-day pre-season test, where teams were able to hit the track for the first time with their 2023 F1 challenges.

“We didn’t have the smoothest winter test in Bahrain,” said Toto. “We had some reliability problems and struggled with the car set-up on day two.

“But the key objective was to learn about the car, and we did lots of learning. We made good progress on the final day, which gave us directions to work on in the short period between the test and this weekend’s race.

We are relishing the challenge. This will be fought over 23 weekends, and each one will give us an opportunity to improve.

Toto Wolff

“Our expectations were that we would likely be playing catch-up to the front, based on how last year ended. That seems to be the case so far but we will only know for sure after this weekend.

“Nevertheless, we are confident we have got a car we can work with and are in a stronger position than 12 months ago.

“More importantly, we are relishing the challenge. This championship will be fought over 23 race weekends, and each one will give us an opportunity to improve.

The anticipation for the new F1 season has continued to build across the winter, with both factories eager for racing to get started.

"The start of a new season is always exciting, whether you’ve been working in this sport for a few decades, years or weeks,” Toto added.

"So much hard work has gone into the W14 over the winter and the anticipation to be get racing has kept on building. We will be going flat out this weekend – and are determined to keep that going to the final lap in Abu Dhabi."