Mercedes F1 hopes that the next two Grand Prix consecutive upgrades to the W13 will help solve the “populating” problem that has upset the champion team’s 2022 season.
Mercedes F1, which has won the Constructors’ Championship for eight consecutive years until last year, was naturally expected to be involved in the race for the championship this season, but suffering from extreme bouncing and striving to advance to qualifying Q3. Is a necessary situation.
Seven-time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton admits that popping is a fundamental issue for the team.
“I remember being asked in the winter if we made a mistake,” said Lewis Hamilton.
“I said at that time,’We don’t make mistakes,’ but in the end, we may have made mistakes.”
However, Lewis Hamilton agrees that if the Mercedes F1 can eliminate popping, it can “unleash the potential of the car.”
Mercedes F1 team representative Toto Wolff publicly apologized to Lewis Hamilton for the car after the checkered flag of the Emilia Romagna GP in Imola.
Teammate George Russell reveals that bouncing has a physical impact on the “waist, back, and chest.”
“But the higher the car, the more time you lose.”
George Russell is more competitive than Lewis Hamilton at this year’s W13, and Toto Wolff says he is “deeply impressed” with Russell in his first full season with the team.
“Driver cooperation is one of the few highlights of the season,” said Toto Wolff. “There is no tension, only productive work.”
“This situation is definitely not the driver’s fault. Lewis is the best driver in the world, he doesn’t have a car to show it right now. In a way, maybe in 8th, 12th or 15th place. It doesn’t matter. That’s not the problem. “
“But we’re talking about seven world champions here.”
“No one knows a great driver who hasn’t experienced a difficult phase. He will help us get out of here.”
The first results of these efforts will be seen in a minor update in Miami this weekend, ahead of the bigger one in Barcelona two weeks later.
“I’ll try again in Miami and then in Barcelona,” Toto Wolff confirmed.
Toto Wolff has the highest expectations for the development of Barcelona.
“The winter presentation model had much less bouncing than the second spec we brought to Bahrain,” Toto Wolff said.
“Comparing the data of the two cars should take us one step further.”
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