Mercedes explain what went wrong with Lewis Hamilton’s set-up in Baku
New rules and a new schedule were introduced for the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, eliminating the usual pra🍰ctice session on a Saturday in favour of the ‘sprint shootout’.
Mercedes’ plan was to run Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell’s🎀 cars with differing set-ups on Friday in advance of the sprint shootout but they were scuppered.
Mike Elliott, chief technical officer, explained: “You’ve only got one one-hour session of FP1 to get the car rig🌄ht.
“And that’s on a circuit that has been res🌊urfaced. So how the tyres are going to work and interact with 🍌that surface is different to what we might have expected.
“We turned up having a set-up we༺ were going to try with Lewis and a set-up we were going to try with George.
“What happened to 🍬us is; we had an issue with Lewis’ car getting it out of the garage on time, because of a parameter in the car.
“ꦯAnd as a consequence of that it made it very difficult to compare those two set-ups.
“I think in hindsight, we’re still not convinced of whether we mad⛎e the right choice or 😼didn’t make the right choice.
“It’s the same for everybody. Everybodyཧ has got that same format to deal with, everybody has got that same challenge of one hour to deal with.”
Hamilt🌜on finished sixth in the Baku grand prix, Russell eighth.
They described their weekend as a step forw♏ards and will hope to make🍰 further strides at this weekend’s F1 Miami Grand Prix.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Ameri♈can sports, to football, to F1.
