2023-05-05 23:37:00
In the first training session in Miami, the Mercedes riders took the first and second lines, but in the second the situation returned to the usual for this season…
Lewis Hamilton (7th): “In the first training session everything went well, but the second confirmed our lag in speed. As in previous weekends, we are one second behind the leaders.
Great weekend, great place, lots of positivity. We’re just not particularly fast. We are trying to change something, but in the second training session we once more met with reality. It’s like a punch in the gut. It is not easy to accept such a lag. The car was similar to last year.
But we continue to work. Tonight we will discuss everything, and tomorrow we will make adjustments to make the car look better. In Melbourne, she worked much more efficiently, and in Baku she looked better than here. Maybe it’s the hot weather, maybe we didn’t guess right with the settings. Let’s see how things turn out tomorrow. Maybe we’ll go up a couple positions. Hopefully on Saturday we will be able to qualify for the finals.”
George Russell (15th): “The situation is similar to last year, when we were the fastest in training, but on Saturday we might not get out of the second qualifying session. The behavior of the car has changed, although when I worked with the Medium compound rubber, everything went quite normally. But as soon as I switched to soft tires, the car lost efficiency.
I think we are already beginning to understand what this is connected with. Fortunately, we have time to make improvements by Saturday. Although we are talking regarding very small increases in speed.
The track coverage has been updated, and the behavior of the car here is noticeably different from what it was on other tracks, so by Sunday we will not have all the answers yet. Difficulties are also related to the fact that here it is impossible to shift from the trajectory – as soon as one of the wheels is outside of it, the clutch immediately disappears. In addition, it is not entirely clear how the heat affects what is happening, but let’s see what happens tomorrow.
However, if we do everything right, I see no reason that will prevent us from getting ahead of Ferrari and Aston Martin in qualifying. This is exactly what we are aiming for…”
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