Lewis Hamilton told “excuses must stop - decision-making has to be questioned”

Concern shared that Lewis Hamilton's tinkering with set-up could impact Mercedes' long-term de🍌velopment

Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 2, Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 2, Saudi Arabian Grand…

🦄Lewis Hamilton has been told his “excuses must stop꧟”.

The Mercedes driver saw last weekend’s F1 Chinese Grand Prix deteriorate as he made set-up𒐪 changes to his W15.

Hamilton excellent in sprint qualifying and in the spr✅int race before, he said, making “making changes” to his car before an error ruined q⭕ualifying for the grand prix.

He started from 18th and finished in P9, but has now been questioned by ꦉa ♛former F1 technical director.

Gary Anderson - who most notably worked at the Jordan F1 team - wrote in  that Hamilton’s “eꦏxcuses must stop at some point”.

Hamilton was warned that Mercedes have “a fundamental problem” and “no amount of set-up changes🍌 will fix it”.

So, Hamilton’s desp♏erate search for a tweak which will take him to the front of F1 is destined to fail, Anderson wrote.

More concerningly, the ex-F1 car designer insisted that the “decis𒆙ion-m🦋aking process on Hamilton’s side of the garage has to be questioned”.

It was noted that Hamilton took responsibility for the set-up changes 🅠to his car, but it was questioned who was involved.

A group including “key engineers” and perhaps even te🔯amꦜ principal Toto Wolff should have been involved, Anderson insists.

He also claime🐽d that changes to the W15 are “probably not as wild as [Hamilton] would have us bel🔴ieve”.

The three small areas of s🏅ignificant change to ground-effect era F1 cars were listed as “ride height, spring stiffness and front and rear wing aerodynamic balance”.

And Hamilton was reminded that no set-up change will greatly improve a car’s fundamental base-line, but they could drastically misa💎lign its balance.

Hamilton “does🉐 not seem willing to accept the reality” of the W15 and is being led “astray” by set-up tweaks, Anderson wrote.

His tinkering will impact 🅺the Mercedes in 2025 and beyond, when Hamilton will no 🦩longer be with the team, it has been warned.

Consta💞nt changes means a base-liꦏne can never be reliably trusted.

And without credible data to take to the🧸 wind tunnel, the direction for future🔯 development can become muddled.

Hamilton, in his final year with Mercedes, was finally told to “look and learn” from teammate George𝓰 Russell in order to 🀅finish as the team’s best driver this season.

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