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# Video: What Mercedes’ ‘mood swings’ mean for its 2023 F1 car
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-what-mercedes-mood-swings-mean-for-its-2023-f1-car/
- Published: 2022-09-21T18:41:49.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T13:49:46.000Z
- Description: Mercedes may have made significant progress with understanding its capricious 2022 Formula 1 car, but it’s still being caught out by what team principal Toto Wolff describes as ‘mood swings’
- Author: Josh Suttill
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-center-center

Mercedes may have made significant progress with understanding its capricious 2022 Formula 1 car, but it’s still being caught out by what team principal Toto Wolff describes as ‘mood swings’.

These are those fluctuations in performance during a weekend that continue to cause confusion, even if Mercedes is generally able to predict how competitive it will be at a given circuit heading into a weekend.

So with Mercedes now well-advanced with the design and development work of its 2023 car, which must build on the lessons learned during a difficult campaign with the troublesome W13, can it be confident that it really understands its problems fully?