Mercedes boss Toto Wolff referred in Abu Dhabi last weekend to the team's 'table of doom' that has helped the Brackley squad predict the performance this season of its troubled W13. Although Mercedes finished third in F1's Constructors' standings, the result, as measured by the team's own standards of excellence, was a major disappointment. The culprit of the Mercedes squad's disconcerting 2022 campaign, which followed eight seasons of unwavering dominance, was its new-generation Silver Arrows, a car embedded with so many complexities that even the engineers involved in its concept and design were often at a loss to understand its seemingly random on-track behaviour. However, while...
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