A meeting of senior Mercedes staff last week was speculated as being a crisis meeting after a spell of difficult races for the Brackley-based squad.

Following a difficult weekend at Spa-Francorchamps, Mercedes was reported as having called a crisis meeting aimed at attempting to figure out why its form in F1 2025 has been so inconsistent.

The truth behind Mercedes’ emergency meeting

After the Belgian Grand Prix, in which George Russell finished a distant fifth while Kimi Antonelli failed to score points after toiling towards the back of the field throughout the weekend, some media reports suggested Mercedes had called its drivers and senior engineering staff to Brackley in order to have an emergency meeting to identify the cause of the performance drop-off.

Since claiming a 1-3 finish

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