‘Something is wrong’ - Lewis Hamilton reveals insight into Mercedes’ F1 car balance struggles at British GP
Hamilton was 12th and 15th as both Mercedes drivers finishꦰed outside the top 10 in FP1 and FP2 on what was a tricky opening day of running for the German manufacturer at Silverstone.
Despite briღnging upgrades to their underperforming W14 challenger, Hamilton stressed the car is still “to📖ugh to drive”.
“Car wise, we’re battling the same thing most of the time,” the seven-time wo♚rld 🙈champion said. “It’s a tough car to drive.
“No matter what we do to set-up, it continues to be a tough car to drive. On a single lap I didn’t feel any improvement between tyres, which𓄧 shows that something is wrong. We’re missing something.
“On the l꧅ong run it didn’t seeꦑm to be too bad, so that’s a positive at least.”
Hamilton was more competitive during his long runs on soft tyres but said “it didn’t feel p✨articularly great” from the cockpit.
“It didn’t fee𝐆l pa♛rticularly great, if I’m being honest,” Hamilton said. “But it must have felt worse for others because they weren’t as quick or potentially had more deg.
“My last run was starting to feel moreꦍ consistent, for whatever reason. It might have been wind, it might have been ba♒lance, or me getting used to balance.
“This track is really about trying to weigh the scales the whole way around and making compromises here and there. There’s s♛uch⭕ a fine edge on the balance and such a big balance window.
“It’s back and forth, it’s never just here and you can just drive it. It’s like one end to the other end of the spectrum, from braking to turn in, to mid, to the exit of every corner. So it’s a good 🔴battle.”
Asked if he knows how to get the balance in the right window, Hamilton replied: “No. Me and George were just talking and he’s one way, he’s over here with the set-up, Iꦛ’m over here.
“He was like ‘I’m thinking of coming to where you are but your lap time is then slow’ and I’m like ‘I was thinking o🌃f coming to where you are’.
“But we’ll try and work on it tonight and🅘 Mick [Schumacher] will do some work on the sim tonight. Hopefully we will come up wi🐠th something for tomorrow.”
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