“I see why Lewis Hamilton is asking questions”, says Ted Kravitz after Mercedes outpaced by Aston Martin at F1 Bahrain Grand Prix
Hamilton was brilliantly overtaken by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso at the season-opening F1 Bahrain Grand Prix, and finished in fifth. George Russell was seventh, Alons🦄o fi⛄nished on the podium, and Red Bull's Max Verstappen won.
The winter development of Aston Martin is more stark b🐎ecause they share a technical partnership with underachieving Mercedes.
“They were third and fourth in Q2 but ended up behind Alonso, with the 🐲same power unit,” Kravitz said on Sky after qualifying.
“This is the key, this is the key!
“Lewis said ಌafter practice: ‘This is the most we can ach♛ieve with our concept and we can’t have a Plan B under the cost cap because we can’t afford it’.
“When you look at Mercedes’ power unit running a different concept of car at Aston Martin? And🀅🥃 Aston Martin are ahead?
“I can see, you can probably see, why Lewis is asking queꦯstions.
“Toto Wolff very firmly said that Lewis is singing from the same hymn sheet and is just b🐬eing hyper-critical, as he alwa♎ys is.”
Team principal Wolff admitted after qualifying that Mercedes would change the concept of their nꦰew W14 car, 24 hours after Hamilton laid bare its limitations.
But, Kravitz insists the m𝕴ood at Mercedes 🃏need not be too gloomy.
“George is fourth hundredths of a second ahead of Lewis,” he said. “They will be evenly matched all season, it will beꦫ really interesting to watch.
“Mercedes reckon they are four tenths behind Red Bull. That’s not so bad, considering the glum nature of tes𒆙ting.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports f🐼or a decade covering everything 🌊from American sports, to football, to F1.
