‘Like I was in a different category’ - Lewis Hamilton's damning Mercedes verdict as he urges “big changes”
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes require "big changes" after a difficult F1𒉰 race in Saudi Arabia.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes need “big changes” to compete with their F1 rivals🍰 after feeling like he was racing “in a different category” at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Tꦉhe seven-time world champion could only finish ninth in Jeddah after being unable to find a way pastও McLaren’s Lando Norris during a late race squabble over the lower-end of the points.
Both Hamilton and teammate George Russell, who was sixth, finis♏hed behind Oscar Piastri and Fernando Alonso who drive for Mercedes customers McLaren and Aston Martin.
Hamilton🙈 was quick to point out the weakness of his Mercedes W15 in high-speed corners compared to the McLaren.
“The car is relatively good in the low-speed and not so bad in the medium but in the🐻 high-speed we are miles off,” 🀅Hamilton confessed.
“It was like I was in a diffe🎐𝐆rent category when I was going through the high-speed compared to the other guys around me.
“It’s frustrated for sure to be, for three years in a row, to almost be in💦 the same position.
“It’s definitely tough but we’ll get our heads down and keep working working away. I know everyone back at the factory is pushing as hard as they 🌠can.
“But we definitely need to make 🍎some big changes. We haven’t made big enough changes perhaps.
“If you look at the three teams ahead of us, they still have a different concept to where we are in some ar♚eas. So we have some performance to add, that’s for su💃re.”
Like Norris, Hamilton ran an offset strategy, running long in the first stint before fitting soft tyres in the closing stages in the hope they could use their extra🔯 grip to catch those ahead.
Desp♌ite the gamble not working as hoped, Hamilton was pleased his Mercedes team tried something different.
“I think it was worth trying something different, splitt🎃ing the cars and trying the different strategies,” he said.
“Ultimately, that’s always the goal, to try and do something a little bit different, particularly when we are in the🔯 position we are in.
“I was fighting as hard 🐈as I could to go long and I was hoping for a Safety Car or something, but was just unfortunate.”
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