Lewis Hamilton haunted by “bouncing” return: “We can’t get rid of it…”
Lewis Hamilton says "inten𝄹se bouncing" on his Mercedes F1 car hampered his qualifying in Saudi Arabia.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has called on Mercedes to fix the “intense bouncing” that he says plagued his F1 car during Saudi Arabian Grand Prix qualifying.
The seven-time world champion struggled throughout qualifying in Jeddah on his way to a disappointing P8, one place behind Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, and over eight-tenths adrift of Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who claimed another dominant pole position.
Afte꧟r qualifying, Hamilton revealed that the bouncing issue which hampered prev☂ious Mercedes F1 cars in recent years, had returned with the team’s revamped W15.
“It’s similar to previous years,ꩲ I would say,” Hamilton told Sky.
“There are so many e🐼lements of this car which are better, it’s just we’re being hindered by the bouncing that we haveꦦ.
“The bouncing we have throღugh 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, which I 🔜think probably effected George. It’s something they’ve not been able to fix.
“We made some changes overnig♓ht and this morning the car felt so much better, I was regaining this confidence again and then we get to qualifying and it disappears.
“But George was doing a great job. He’s a lot more comfortable in the car. A bit similar to the last couple of years I would say. But we will keꦍep our heads down and keeping working.
“I got a bit of a 💝better feeling as to where the issue is coming from, so I will try and address it with the 𓂃team.”
When asked🉐 what he thinksꦰ is causing it, Hamilton, who is leaving Mercedes to join Ferrari next season, replied: “We've tried every set-up change. We can't get rid of it. It's difficult to explain it.
"We had 🔯some bouncing in Bahrain but nowhere near as intenseও as here.
"That first sector is super high-speed with a lot of yaw in the car and a lot of lateral load and the bou🍬ncing reall🉐y offsets the car quite a bit.
"If you imagine 💛when the car goes up and down at the back, your balance shifts forwards and rearwards.
"If you are doing that at 160 or 170mpm, correcting that each timꦍe...the others like Max are flat through six, seven and eight and the balance is just stable. That's what we are working towards.
"We've got to fix it. It's three years in a row. We've got ♐to get oജn top of it."
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