F1 2023 team-by-team review: Doom and gloom for Mercedes but McLaren transformed and Ferrari can close gap

It has been a story of doom and gloom talking to Lewis Hamilton and team principal Toto Wolff, and yet they still did well to finish best of the rest in second place in the constructors’ championship after a difficult season. But it was an early season of head scratching before admitting in April time that, after a season and a bit of trying, they had totally got their concept wrong and were planning to start all over again with next season’s car.