Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s W13 car’s problems explained by Mercedes technical director Mike Elliott
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell have been plagued by issues in the W13 car, initially severe 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:porpoising at the beginning of the season which ended their hopes of challenging 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen for the title.
“When you loo♑k at a car, you have to look at it as a whole,” technical director Elliott told the Beyond The Grid podcast.
“When you think about strengths and weaknesses, we could probably talk circuit to circuit, but we look at how we developed the𒉰 car, and I could point to one moment in time last year where we made a mistake.
“What you’re seeing in terms of performance at the track and the way it swings from r♔ace to race is a consequence of that.
“That’s a mistake we’ve known about for a little while. It’s 🌳something we’ve been correcting.
“And 🔯that’s why our performance has gradually ꦅgotten better, but it’s not something that we can fully correct for a little while yet. We will do over the winter.
“I ൩can’t tell you the technical de▨tail because it’s something we wouldn’t want to give away, but I can tell you that these cars are complicated.
“In order to get 🌺to the right solution, you have to get💧 the best out of vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, tyres, the way the chassis works mechanically.
“When you make these compromises that are tec𒐪hnically difficult, when you look at this year’s car versus last year’s car, they fundamentally run in a completely different way.
“You know, they run close t꧋o the ground, obviously seeing the problems of bouncing, and so making that transition from what we were doing last year to this year, we got something slightly wrong.”
Hamilton was denied an all-time record eighth F1 championship at the controversial 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last year by Verstappen, who is also set to win this year’s title, possibly as early as this weekend’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 Japanese Grand Prix.
Hamilton’s hopes of responding in the F1 2023 season hinge on whether Mercedes can make the require🐭d changes to their car.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from 🉐American sports, to football, to F1.
