Also the Florida The team Mercedes Of F1 He couldn’t shift gears. There Sprint Race was characterized by the lackluster performance of both W15. To be fair, Lewis Hamilton fought tenaciously against Magnussen in the “firewall” version to defend his team mate’s seventh position rather than his own track position. In the end the British driver got the better of the razor’s edge by overtaking the VCARB Of Tsunoda. However, the maneuver on the track is nullified by a twenty-second penalty for speeding pit lane.
We can say that the mini race on the American track was the lowest point of the season Mercedesuntil now. Even the battered one Alpine it seemed very close to performance of the German car. However, it is also true that the path of You love me it lends itself to the formation of long trains of single-seaters thanks to the use of DRS and therefore only today will we know the real value of the forces on the field, when the single-seaters will inevitably race along the 5412 meters of the county track Miami-Dade.
At the end of the Sprint Raceafter learning of the statements of Magnussen who stated with certainty that he was not at all happy with his incorrect driving behavior, Lewis Hamilton he didn’t blame the Danish driver. On the contrary, he appreciated his honesty, demonstrating that he was not at all upset by the fight to the limit that took place which, moreover, for the seven-time world champion of F1represents the essence of competition.
F1, qualifying promotes Mercedes to fourth place due to the demerits of others
Mercedes barefoot Aston Martin from the fourth step of the virtual scale of values expressed on the single lap. More than progress, the credit goes to the involution of team Of Silverstonewhere the star of Fernando Alonso it doesn’t shine like in the past round. There’s not much to celebrate when the pole is more than eight tenths of a second away and a customer competitor is always in front of you. Just like McLareneven engineers Mercedes they tried to use the medium compound tires that had impressed in the first part of the season sprint shootout on the papaya-colored single-seaters.
In the end it turned out to be a sort of move of desperation which in fact exposed the difficulty in putting the single-seater’s problems in order, tackling them in a scientific way rather than relying on attempts that we can define as at least “empirical”. The pilots of the W15 often seems to be passengers of the vehicle and as soon as they try to “demand” more from the car, the lap times rise significantly due to a handling disastrous. Behavior that is more than evident, for example, in the narrow and tortuous segment that leads from turn 14 to turn 16.
The head-to-head in qualifying between Russell And Hamilton recites, especially for Cavallino fansa disturbing 5-1 in favor of the youngest and least successful English driver who managed to overtake the teammate also in qualifying Florida. Obviously the seven-time world champion is bitter, but to the media he states that although it wasn’t a great performance he said he was happy to have managed to enter the Q3. According to the multiple champion, the tires Pirelli they are very sensitive and making them work to achieve maximum potential is an exercise they have been working on since the beginning of the year.
After some good feeling in Q2, Lewis confirmed that in the third segment of qualifying the single-seater couldn’t offer more. The final comment is the summary of the current level of competitiveness. For the record man to be eight tenths away from Red Bull and struggle with the Haas is only partially attributable to the difficult understanding of the product provided by Pirelli. More caustic George Russellwho by virtue of a longer collaboration with the three-pointed star expresses his concern regarding the evolution of the season.
According to the English pilot, in the first Grand Prizes have begun to understand the various headaches that afflict the W15. Problems that unfortunately seem difficult to resolve with strict crackdowns. Yet in the stage of Florida some minor updates have debuted which for the moment do not seem to work at all. This is because the project Mercedes 2024 under the supervision of James Allison it doesn’t work and once again it will require more invasive interventions to try to get out of this technical quagmire that the team Of Brackely he has lived there for years now.
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