“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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso at the season-opening F1 Bahrain Gran🎶d Prix, and finished in fifth. George Russell was seventh, Alonso finished on the podium, and Red Bull's Maဣx Verstappen won.
The winter development of Aston Martin is more stark because they share a technical part♒nership with underachieving Mercedes.
“They were th💫ird and fourth in Q൲2 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 after practice: ‘This is the most we can ac🔥hieve with our concept and we can’t have a Plan B under the cost c✱ap because we can’t afford it’.
“W♈hen 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 questions.
“Toto Wolff very firmly said that Lewis is singing from the same hymn sheet and is ju𓆉st being hyper-critical, as he always is.”
Team principal Wolff admitted after qualify♑ing that Mercedes would change the concept of their new W14 car, 24 hours after Hamilton laid bare its 🌜limitations.
But, Kra🦋vitz insists the mood at Mercedes need not be too gloomy.
“George is fourth hundredths of a second ahead of Lewis,” he said. “They will bཧe evenly matched all season, it will 🐬be really interesting to watch.
“Mercedes reckon they are four tenths behind Red Bull. That’s not so bad🐼, considering the glum nature of testing.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sportಌs, to football, to F1.
