Lewis Hamilton finished just 2.2 seconds behind race winner Max Verstappen in what was arguably his most competitive outing of the year prior to a disqualification for a car plank infringement.
However, it was not lost on Hamilton nor his squad that the race could have had a different initial outcome if less time had been lost in its two pitstops, which were judged as taking 3.6 and 3.4 seconds.
This compares with the fastest pitstop of the day by Alpine at 2.2s, and Red Bull's fastest stops being 2.4s.
The gap between Mercedes and the other teams seems to be a consistent pattern over recent years, with it rarely being one of the best teams when it comes to pitstop times.
Wolff said the issues that Mercedes faces are related to equipment rather than human error, but he said the time may have come now where it needed to change its approach because others gained too much.
"Our mindset in the last 12 years, we don't need to be world champions in pitstops," he said.
"We need to avoid very slow pitstops. And it's coming to a situation now where we realise that it has got so competitive, and we just need to ramp up our game up there.
Source: Autosport