F1 Monaco: Poor qualifying performance, Mercedes claims to adopt a "crazy" strategy

Wolf and Antonelli both hinted that Mercedes might try some "a bit crazy" strategies in the official Monaco race, and it is really curious how "alternative" they will adopt.

In the Monaco qualifying race, Mercedes-Benz suffered a disaster. First, the newcomer Antonelli crashed at the Nouvelle speed reduction corner at the end of Q1. Although he made it into Q2 with his previous results, he could no longer fight. Then Russell lost power shortly after the start of Q2. Although he wanted to barely drive the car back to the garage, he eventually had to stop in the tunnel, and the red flag of the race stage was interrupted, and Russell had not completed any timing at this time.

Due to the above two situations, Mercedes-Benz drivers only ranked 14th and 15th, which is undoubtedly a situation like falling into hell for Monaco, which has extremely important ranking results. However, in order to strengthen the viewing of Monaco stations, which were often criticized as "marches", FIA introduced new regulations to force two entry points this year, which created an opportunity for Mercedes-Benz to turn the tables through the entry strategy. When asked after the qualifying race whether we would adopt an alternative strategy in the official race, Wolf said: "We just discussed that since our starting position is so low, of course we should make good use of the new regulations and try some crazy options that you would not have considered, such as keeping on the field, or entering the station soon."

Antonelli also had the same idea. He said: "Obviously we have to use very different ways of thinking to deal with this dilemma. After all, we didn't expect the two cars to start from this back."

"So we will definitely try some potentially crazy solutions. I'm not sure what to do. I have to discuss with the team again. The goal is to recover as many rankings as possible."