Broken seat, 1% battery, lift and coast… Mercedes’ Bahrain gremlins assessed
Mercedes 'still have to work at this concept' afterꦜ Lewis Hami🧔lton and George Russell struggles in Bahrain
Mercedes experienced teething problems with their W15 during the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton reported engine issues as he finished seventh, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell insisted his🔥 battery wasn’t working properly as he finished fifth.
Both drivers were forced to lift and coast, too.
The feedback was a sobering reminder that Mercedes are in the e♉arly days of their new car concept, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen continues to dominate by winning in Bahrain.
Naomi Schiff said on Sky Sports about Hamilton: “He even mentioned thꦦat his seat was broken.
“There was a lot that they were dealing with.
“They seemed optimistic, at least Lewis did.
“This is now the bitter reality. We’ve seen the car’s performan🌠ce in qualifying and seen the performance in t🐲he race.
“While I think they have made a step forward, because the drivers have tol𒅌d us that the grip is tighter, but if you look at the performance of the Red Bulls, [Merce🔥des] are still quite a while away.
“It mꦑeans they will still have to work at th✤is concept.
“They’ve only had this concept for a coupꦇle of weeks on track while some teams in this paddock have had this concept for two years.
“Th🔴ey are still in the learning phase of how to rea♒lly lock in the performance.”
Russell g𝓀ave up a crucial position to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc after locking up.
“He was making good pro🎶gress and I wondered howღ well he could do,” Damon Hill reacted.
“They faded a𒉰way. As Toto said, it sounds like they got the cooling wrong and had l𝓀ots of issues.
“They have still got lots of learnings about this c🅺ar, and getting it right.
“For a car to have a cooling proble💟m on a freezing cold night…
“It looks like they got this part of the equation wrong. But they ar🀅e still learnꦇing.”
Red Bull finished 1-2 with Vers🍎tappen and Sergio Perez, followed by the Ferrari duo of Carlos Sainz and Leclerc.
The McLarens, like the Mercedes, struggled with minor issue🅘s at various parts 🍸of the Bahrain weekend.
Finding the answers to those problems will create the closer fight against the Red Bulls that preseason testing hinting at, S𓃲chജiff said.
“Sꦫome of them have gremlins,” she said about t🌠he chasing pack.
“Lando Norris was telling us how much they were dealing with, partly because𓂃 of the deg, and the wind.
“Yesterday we had lots o🦩f wind, today a lot less. You’d think that makes it easier bu🌜t they had got used, on certain corners, to driving a certain way.
“There were a lot of fact♒ors that maybe meant things weren’t as tight as we’d like to see, like the issue💯s that Mercedes were having and the issues that Charles had.
“If they get rid of thos🥃e things, there could be a tighter battle behind Verstappen.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decadeꦰ ♏covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
