{"id":43428,"date":"2026-06-20T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/43428\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:07:29","slug":"toto-wolff-orders-urgent-mercedes-fix-after-f1-barcelona-reliability-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/43428\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff orders urgent Mercedes fix after F1 Barcelona reliability issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toto Wolff says Mercedes will do everything possible to identify the cause of its recent Formula 1 power unit failures after another frustrating retirement for the team in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kimi Antonelli looked set for a strong result in Barcelona before his race ended late on. The Italian was running second when an issue described by Mercedes as an \u201celectrical shutdown\u201d forced him out, costing the team 18 valuable points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The setback followed a similar problem for George Russell in Canada. Russell was leading the race when his car suddenly stopped, denying Mercedes a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/results\/2026\/races\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25-point haul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problems have not been limited to the works team. Mercedes customer squad McLaren has also experienced power unit-related concerns in 2026. Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were unable to start the Chinese GP after issues emerged shortly before the race.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes needs to dig deep to find the issue<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking after Antonelli\u2019s retirement, Wolff stressed the importance of improving reliability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t DNF cars in a regular, continued way,\u201d Wolff told media, including Motorsport Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLosing 25 points in the constructors\u2019 championship in Montreal, and losing another 18 points [in Barcelona], in order to finish first, first you must finish \u2013 and reliability, this is what we need to get on top of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat is number one, and nobody is happy about it, and we will leave no stone unturned to understand [what is causing the issues].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolff also suggested Antonelli\u2019s retirement showed similarities to Russell\u2019s failure in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMost of the others were battery-related, but different failures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was not always the same, so we need to understand what it was, but clearly, the symptom was quite similar, in that the car, like George in Montreal, where the car just switched off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut we will be digging really deep to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercedes must act quickly, because repeated reliability losses like these will inevitably derail any championship ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f4e38823210a08082bb1b7570c4f0bc7 wp-block-paragraph\">READ MORE \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2026\/06\/18\/mercedes-makes-f1-monaco-appeal-decision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes makes fresh decision in F1 Monaco Right of Review appeal\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff says Mercedes will do everything possible to identify the cause of its recent Formula 1 power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,18073,4357,17797,19864],"class_list":["post-43428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelonagp","tag-f1","tag-mercedes","tag-wolff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}