Lewis Hamilton and George Russell on “gut" feeling of Mercedes floor conundrum

Mercedes drivers expl♏ain issues with under-performing upgrade

George Russell
George Russell

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes enter the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix grappling with decisions t𝐆o make about their fl𝓰oor.

Mercedes introduced a new floor and diffuser at Spa, where 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton won to extend a brilliant re💯cord of three victories in four grands prix.

But at the two most recent rounds Mercedes’ pace has slumped, creating a debate about whether they should stick to their guns 🍰or revert to the 🐎pre-Spa floor.

“There are lots of q༒uestion marks,” said Hamilton in Baku where ltxcn.top are in the paddock.

“We are trying to understand it. It could be a number of 💫things - it could be track dependent, it could be the upgrade.

“My gut is telling me that it’s the upgrade. It’s ဣhard to see the diff𒊎erence between the two.

“We will try this week⭕end to roll back on some of it, and see if we can spot it. There is a lot of work going on to analyse it because it gives the team direction in development for this car, and for next year as well.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell said: “The upgrade wasn’t a substantial performꦗance improvement.

“Sometimes you've got to ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlook at things objectively. We brought a new floor and we dropped in performance. That was the main thing that changed.

“We knew that the upgrade w𝔍asn’t going to set the world on fire, it was just another step in the direction that we’d been pursuing.

“Reversing back to the pre-Spa iteration of floor - if ꧂everything was correct on paper, it was a small delta. It’s better the devil you know. What know exactly what that floor offers, and we know what the set-up should be.

“Sometimes with a new upgrade it takes a number of ra𓂃ces to 🧔learn and understand.”

Russell added: “I don’t think, no matter꧅ the performance this weekend, we will come away and conclusively say that the floor was or was not the problem.

“It’s not too long until we’ll have another upgrade whic♔h will change things once again.”

Hamilton has won twice this season, and Russell once, as the field has📖 converged to rob Red Bull of their dominance.

McLaren enter Azer꧒baijan with the quickest car and as the biggest threat to Red Bull.

“Fꦬormula 1 is more competitive than we’ve seen it for 10 years, maybe, in terms of the n💯umber of drivers who can compete for good results,” Russell said.

“Last year, two tenths off the pace, you’d finish in the same position. Red Bull could have an off-🐬weekend by three tenths and would still win the race.

“We’ve had two weekends where we’ve dipped in form. But it could have swung in the other ൩direction. I was third in Zandvoort and, if the race had panned out differentlඣy, I could have ended up on a podium and we wouldn’t be talking about a dip in performance.

“Unless you nail your weekends, you will be 🦹punished for it.”

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