Mercedes tease significant upgrade as Lewis Hamilton’s pit lane start explained
M🦄ercedes detail the key reasons behind Lewis Hamilton's pit lane start at the Azerbaijan Gran𒀰d Prix.

Mercedes have explained the reasons behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s pit lane start at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, teasing a significant F1 upgrade package.
Despite qualifying seventh in Baku, Mercedes opted to🎃 start Hamilton from the pit lane.
Mercedꦜes decided to give Hamilton a new power unit in his pool of components for the rest of the year.
However, due to an engine failure in Australia, Mercedes knew this decision would be inevi🐬table.
🍬With Singapore difficult to overtake, and sprint weekends coming up, Mercedes decided to sacrifice Hamilton’s weekend despite a respectable P7 sꦺtarting position.
Another keyﷺ factor, revealed by trackside engineering chief Andrew Shovlin, is that Mercedes are preparing a significant upgrade in the coming races.
Speaking aboutꩵ the decision to start from the pit lane with Hamilton in Baku, Shovlin said on the : “The situation with Lewis really started back in Melbourne when we lost a very young power unꩲit with a failure.
“So we had been aware for a long time we were going to have to get another power unit into the pool in order to be able to complete the season without ri♉sk of one failing during a race. You🌳 definitely don't want that to happen.
“Th🦩e question was - where do we do it? You wouldn’t do it normally have taken a pit lane start from a P7 grid position because there would be decent opportunity to score points. But one of the factors for us is that we’ve drifted back in terms of our performance recently. In the near future, we’ve got a good update kit coming.
“We’re hop♛ing that will put us back into a better situation. What we wanted to do was to get the pain of tha💯t pit lane start out of the way before we’ve got a car that can hopefully challenge for podiums on merit.
“So that was the real thinking. Now that’s behind us so we’re looking forward to the rest of the season. Certainly in Lewis’ case he should have go🦩od, reliable and powerfไul Mercedes engines for the remaining races.”
In recent rounds Mercedes have slipped back in t💖he pecking order amid Ferrari’s resurgence.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell inherited third in Azerbaijan following an incident between 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.
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