Mercedes spending $millions to bury competition in 2019

Toto Wolff says Mercedes is being very aggressive with the 2019 car

In 2019, aims to clinch a sixth consecutive World Championship double, and they are outspending everyone to do it.

“We’ve had some good weeks in the wind tunnel," Wolff said at a sponsor event with Hewlett-Packard.

“We’ve had a little bit of a setback on the engine side where we believed the new concept would deliver a little bit more.

“But these guys are very ambitious like all of us and so I’m optimistic.

“We will know when the first qualifying session gets underway in Melbourne, this is the moment where everybody shows their cards."

“There is a tremendous development race that is happened as we speak," he added.

“Finding downforce, reducing drag and of course the engine is a very important part, adding more horsepower to the engine.

“So we are setting ourselves really ambitious targets.

“We have actually increased the targets six weeks ago because we heard some rumors that others were doing well."