Broken seat, 1% battery, lift and coast… Mercedes’ Bahrain gremlins assessed
Mercedes 'still have to work at this concept' after♕ Lewis Hamilton 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 worki🦩ng properly as he finished fifth.
Both drivers were forced to lift and coast, too.
The feedback was a sobering reminder that Mercede♔s are in the early 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 that hiꩵs 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 performance in qualifying and seen the performa♚nce in the race.
“While I think they have made a step forward, because the drivers have told us that the grip is tighter, but if you look at the performa꧃nce of the Red Bulls, [Mercedes] are still quite a while away.
“It means t𒉰hey 🎃will still have to work at this concept.
“They’ve only had this concept for a couple of weeks on track while s🌳ome teams in this paddock have had this concept for two years.
“They 💃♔are still in the learning phase of how to really lock in the performance.”
Russell gave up a crucial position to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc afꦦter locking up.
“He was making good progr💧ess and I wondered how well he could do,” Damon Hill reacted.
“They faded away. As Toto said, it sounds like they got the cooling wrong and had lots of issue🧸s.
“They have still got lots of learnings about this car, an🌱d getting it right.
“F🍒or a car to have a cooling problem on a freezing cold night…
“It looks like they got thi🌳s part of the equation wrong. But they are still learning.”
Red Bull finished 1-2 with Verstappen and Sergio Perez, followed ꦯby the Ferrari duo of Carlos Sainz and Leclerc.
The McLare🍎ns, like the Mercedes, struggled with minor issues at various parts of the Bahr൲ain weekend.
Finding the answers to those problems will 💦create the closer fight against the Red Bulls that preseason testing hinting at, Schiff said.
“Some of them have gremꩵlins,” she said about the chasing pac🐭k.
“Lando Norris was telling us how much they were dealing with, partly b🔴ecause of the deg,♉ and the wind.
“Yesterday we had lots 🍸of wind, today a lot less. You’d think that makes it easier but they had got used, on certain co꧙rners, to driving a certain way.
“There were a lot of factors that maybe meant things weren’t as tight as we’d like to see, like 🦄the issues that Mercedes were having and the issues that Charles had.
“If 🔴they get rid of those things, there could be a tight🎃er battle behind Verstappen.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky 𝕴Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
