Broken seat, 1% battery, lift and coast… Mercedes’ Bahrain gremlins assessed
Mercedes 'still have to work at this concept' after Lewis Hamilton and Geo🔯rge Russell strug✨gles in Bahrain
Mercedes experienced teething problems with their W15 during the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton reported engine issues as he finished seventh, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell insisted his battery wasn꧑’t working properly as he finished fifth.
Both drivers were forced to lift and coast, too.
The feedback was a sobering reminder that Mercedes are in the early days of their new car concept, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen continues to dom🌌inꦛate by winning in Bahrain.
Naomi Schiff said on Sky Sports about Hamilton: “He even🌠 mentioned that his seat was broken.
“There was a lot that they were dealing with.
“They seemed optimistic, at least Lewis did.
“This is now the bitter reality. We’ve seen the car’s performance in q🐼ualifying and s♑een the performance in the race.
“While I think they have made a step forward, because the drivers haওve told us that the grip is tighter, but if you look at the performance of the Red Bul🍨ls, [Mercedes] are still quite a while away.
“It means they wꦬill still have to work at this conce🤪pt.
“They’ve only had this concept for a couple of weeks on track while some teams in this paddock have had this ওconcept for two years.
“They are still in the ꦑlearn🍨ing phase of how to really lock in the performance.”
Russell gave up a crucia💎l position to Ferrari’s Cha🍎rles Leclerc after locking up.
“He was making goo♎d progress and I wondered how well he could do,” Damon Hill reacted.
“They faded away. As Toto said, it 𓂃sounds like they got the cooling wrong and had lots of issues.
“They have still got lots of le꧟arnings about this car, and getting it right.
“For a 🎃car to have a cooling problem on a freezing cold night…
“I🎐t looks like they got this part of the equation wrong. But they are still learni༺ng.”
Red Bull finished 1-2 with Verstappen and Sergio🐻 Perez, followed by the Ferrari duo of Carlos Sainz and Leclerc.
The McLarens, like the Mercedes, strug🗹gled with ﷽minor issues at various parts of the Bahrain weekend.
Finding the answers to tho🐬se problems will create the closer fight against the Red Bulls that preseason testing hinting at, Schiff said.
“Some of♏ them have gremlins,” she said about t𒅌he chasing pack.
“Lando Norris was ♛telling us how much they were dealing with, partly because of the deg, and the win✅d.
“Yesterday we had lots of wind, today a lot less. You’d think that makes it easier but they had got used, on certain corners, to driving a🌞 certain way.
“There were a lot of factors that maybe meant things weren’t as tight as we’d lik🍨e to see, like the issues that Mercedes were having and the issues 🌃that Charles had.
“If they get rid of those things, th꧟ere could be a tighter battle behind Verstappen.”
James was a sports journဣalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
