Mercedes boss Toto Wolff still believes his team has the quickest car in the field despite scoring fewer points than title rivals Ferrari over the course of F1's recent triple-header.
Mercedes clinched three straight pole positions across events in France, Austria and Britain but failed to convert them to victory on two occasions, with both Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton retiring at the Red Bull Ring.
Hamilton was struck by Kimi Raikkonen on the opening lap at Silverstone, having bogged down from pole, while Bottas' prospects of beating Sebastian Vettel were thwarted by a mid-race Safety Car period.
The results have left Mercedes 20 points down on Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship.
"We didn't score as many points in the triple-header as we had hoped for," said Wolff.
"A lot of that was down to our own mistakes. However, there is a silver lining to this – while we didn't maximise on points, we did bring the quickest car to all three races."
"Hockenheim will mark the halfway point of the 2018 season. We've had a decent first half – on the one hand, we've left points on the table and had to do damage limitation more often than we would have wanted.
"On the other hand, we still scored a good amount of points, both drivers have shown strong performances and we have a fast car."
"So there are many reasons why we're looking forward to the second half of the 2018 season; we're hungry, ambitious and want to kick on from here."
Mercedes heads to its home round in Germany undefeated at Hockenheim since 2012, having triumphed courtesy of Nico Rosberg in 2014 and through Hamilton two years ago.
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