Lewis Hamilton and George Russell on “gut" feeling of Mercedes floor conundrum
Mercedes dr♊ivers explain issues with under-performing upgrade

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mercedes enter the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix grappling with decis🍷ions to make about their floor.
Mercedes introduced a new floor and diffuser at Spa, where 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton won to extend a brilliant record of three victories in four grands⛄ౠ prix.
But at the two m𝕴ost recent rounds Mercedes’ pace has slumped, creating a debate about whether tꦺhey should stick to their guns or revert to the pre-Spa floor.
“There are lots of question marks,” said Hamiltonꦰ in🌼 Baku where wuqian0821.com are in the paddock.
“We are trying to understand it. It could be a number of things - it could be track dependent, it could be the ✅upgrade.
“My gut is telling me that it’s the upgrade. It’s hard toꦡ see the difference between the two.
“We will try this weekend to roll back on some of it, and see🅠 if we can spot it. There is a lot of work going on to analyse it because it gives the team direction in development for this car, and for next year as well.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell said: “The upgrade wasn’t a sub𓆉stantial performance impro꧋vement.
“Sometimes you've got to look at things objectively. We brought a new floor and we dropped in perform🧔൲ance. That was the main thing that changed.
“We knew that the upgrade wasn’t going to se🎀t the world on fire, it was just another step in the direction that we’d been pursuing.
“Reversing back to the pre-Spa iteration of floor - if everything was correct on paper, it was a small de🌃lta. It’s better the devil you know. What know exactly what that floor offers, and we know what the set♛-up should be.
“Sometimes with a new upgrad⛎e it takes a number of racesꦅ to learn and understand.”
Russell added: “I don’t think, no matter the performance this weekend, we will come away and conclusively say that the floor was or was n✨ot the p🐽roblem.
“It’s not to❀o long until we’ll have ano🀅ther upgrade which will change things once again.”
Hamilton has won t༺wice this season, and Russell once, as the field has converged to rob Red Bull of their dom꧒inance.
McLaren enter Azerbaijan with the quickest car and as the biggest threat to R✨ed Bull.
“Formula 1 is mo♔re competitive than we’ve seen it for 1ও0 years, maybe, in terms of the number of drivers who can compete for good results,” Russell said.
“Last year, two tenths off♎ the pace, you’d finish in the same position. Red Bull could have an off-weekend by three tenths and would still wꦜin the race.
“We’ve had two weekends where we’ve 🔯dipped in form. But it could have swung in the other direction. I was third in Zandvoort and, if the race had panned out differently, I could have ended up on a podium and we wouldn’t be talking about a dip in performance.
“Unless you nail ♉your weeಌkends, you will be punished for it.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from A൩m🔯erican sports, to football, to F1.