2023-07-03 03:05:45
Mercedes drivers marvel at speed disadvantage at Austrian GP
Mercedes AMG drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were surprised by their W14’s lack of pace in the official Austrian GP race.
I thought they had found some competitiveness through the conversion of the design concept, allowing them to have at least one driver on the podium in the past two Spanish and Canadian GPs.
However, when they came to the Red Bull Ring, they mightn’t run at the same level. Only Russell broke into the points circle in the sprint race. The official race was also quite difficult. Not only might Hamilton not keep up with the pace of his target opponent, but he was also forced by Lando Norris of the engine customer McLaren to repeatedly exceed the track limit, and was finally killed, so he received an overtime ticket. Paying the price slipped to seventh.
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Russell, on the other hand, has been hovering on the edge of the points circle. Thanks to Nico Hulkenberg’s retirement and Lance Stroll’s troubles, he was able to reach eighth at the end. The names of people are swapped.
Regarding this game, Hamilton said: “Today is not a perfect day. We didn’t expect that we would be so slow. Our performance this weekend was surprising. We still don’t have an answer to this. We don’t know why it happened, but this venue Highlighted a few areas where we need to work on improving.”
“These are also the reasons why I repeatedly exceeded the track limit. We made adjustments to the front wing in two pit stops and the car started to get back on track, but it was still a challenge to avoid exceeding the track limit.”
Russell echoed his team-mate Mercedes’ car as “not as fast as we expected”, saying: “I’m sure we’ll find the problem, the car is the same as it was in Barcelona, where we did a great job, so we have to understand Where did it go wrong?”
“The current car definitely doesn’t feel the way we want it to, the mannerisms are erratic, this weekend feels a little bit worse than the other venues, the speed is obviously much worse, so we have to find out what’s going on.”
“We knew at the weekend that our car wasn’t strong enough on the trailing edge, so we did a lot of adjustments on the front wing to keep things balanced. I was really struggling in some corners, especially at 10, and the car would spin. , I really can’t do anything regarding it.”
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