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 practice 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 d🍸iffering set-ups on Fꦚriday in advance of the sprint shootout but they were scuppered.
Mike Elliott, chief technical offi♔cer, ♌explained: “You’ve only got one one-hour session of FP1 to get the car right.
“And that’s on a circuit tha🍸t has been resurfaced. 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 wer🌃e going to try with George.
“What happened to us is; we ha🌱d an issue with Lewis’ car getting it out of the garage on time, because of a parameter in the ♑car.
“And as a consequence of that it made it very difficult toඣ co🧔mpare those two set-ups.
“I think in hindsight, we’re still not convinced of whether we ma🧔de the right choice or didn’t make the right choice.
“It’s the same for ev🌺erybody. Everybody has got that same format to deal with, everybody has got that same challenge of one hour to deal with.”
Hamilton finished sixth in the Baku grand prix, Russel❀l eighth.
They described their weekend as a step forwards and will hope to make furtꦏher strides at this weekend’s F1 Miami Grand Prix.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a dec♊ade covering everything from American sports, to foot✨ball, to F1.
