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The German car manufacturer is coming off the back of the first season since 2013 where it has not won at least one of the world championship titles.
But while 2022 fell short of expectation, and delivered it fair share of headaches at times with the tricky W13, Wolff says it has been a much easier experience to live through than the controversial way Mercedes saw Lewis Hamilton lose the drivers’ championship 12 months ago.
Asked by Motorsport.com about which of the last two seasons was more painful, Wolff said: “Last year without any doubt, because last year was strong. And how it ended, within a couple of seconds, we knew that that’s it.
“It’s out of control; out of your hands. And losing control, that was the first time since I was an adolescent. And, in my sense of fairness, that was totally against my values.”
Wolff thinks that it has …