Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s W13 car’s problems explained by Mercedes technical director Mike Elliott
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell have been plagued by issues in the W13 car, initially severe 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:porpoising at the beginning of the season which ended their hopes of challenging 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen for the title.
“Whe🏅n you look 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 strꦺengths and weaknesses, we could probably talk circuit to circuit, but we look at how we developed the 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 race to race is a consꦐequence 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🔴 gotten better, but it🎉’s not something that we can fully correct for a little while yet. We will do over the winter.
“I can’t tell you the technical detail because it’s somethinꦫg 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 wo♐rks mechanica🎃lly.
“When you make these compromises that are technically difficult, when you look at this year’s ꦬcar versus last year’s car, they fundamentally run in✃ a completely different way.
“You know, they run close to the ground, obviously seeing the problems of bouncing, and so making that transition from wh🥂at we were doing last yꦇear to this year, we got something slightly wrong.”
Hamilton was denied an all-time record eighth F1 championship at the controversial 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Japanese Grand Prix.
Hamilton’s hopes of responding in the F1 2023 season hinge on whether Mercedes can make 𓆏the required changes to their car.
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