Mercedes left in dark over reason for George Russell’s W16 issues

Mercedes unsure what the root cause behind George Russe𝕴ll's W16 electrical troubles was.

George Russell
George Russell

Mercedes are still unclear as to what exactly happened to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell’s F1 car during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Russell turned in a brilliant drive to claim second place behind McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri in Sunday's race despite suffering from a plethora of electrical gremlins which caused🐲 Mercedes’ systems to go 🅰awry.

The Briton lost𒁃 brake-by-wire in his W16 and experienced transponder issues which saw him repeatedly vanish from the timing screens. This also impacted his automatic DRS activation system.

At one point Russell incorrectly activated his DRS which led to a post-race investigation, but he 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:escaped punishment having immediately backed off the throttle in ordꦯer to close the flap.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolf🌱f admitted he is unsure whether the fault was theirs or an issue on Formula One Management’s end.

"It has ha✤ppened before back in 2018," Wolff explained to media after the race.

"There have been examples of needing to manually override and inadvertently opening being no further action. It doesn't mean that's the case here, but the🍎re are precedents for it.

“It opened and closed. There wasn’t any benefit. The syste🌄m failed and we hope it will be alright.

"We don'tღ know the [cause] yet. Maybe some wiring looms in the car, or maybe it was triggered by the F1 system failure and it caused our system to go bananas.ꦜ"

Mercedes hail ‘unbelievable’ George Russell drive

Wolff was left impressed by Russell’s ability to fend off the faster McLaren of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris to secure P2 while contending with a multitude of issues i💎nside his cockpit.

"The brake-by-wire failed suddenly, and then it took a while to💛 find the settings to kind of res💞et it,” he said.

“But we did that, and then, to be honest, him managing💧 the system coming in and out while having Norris behind him. It's just an unbelievable drive, to be honest.

"What he did today. He secured this podium on top of that. Taking the soft for such a long time ♐was also created between managing and tꦛhen attacking when he needed to.

“And I think it's probably whoever, if you haven't driven a race car that has a BBW or conventional brake, it's like on a road car when the power assisted steering fail❀s.

"And then imagine you have to adjust between one corner h🦂aving it and the next 💃one not having it, that was just a very good skill.”

Wolff confirmed t꧙hat Russell lost brake-by-wire, 💃GPS, on-board and DRS.

“I think on 🐬the d𝔍ash we didn't have all the things that we expected,” he added.

“We also feared that we w🧸ould lose the whol𒁏e dash, which would have meant no buttons, no ways to run any of the settings and obviously he had it in the shift lights, and he had it in the back of his mind and it didn't take his concentration away.” 

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