Jenson Button explains why Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes seating position is making him “struggle”
Ahead൩ of the Australian Gꦗrand Prix, Hamilton detailed the issues he has with the 2023 Mercedes car, pinpointing one key area.
“If you look at the past, I’v🐼e always enjoyed an oversteering car,” Hamilton explained. "I don’t know if people know, we sit closer to the front wheel🍎s than all the other drivers. Our cockpit is too close to the front.
“When you’re driving, you feel lik🌄e you’re sitting on the front wheels which is one of the worst feelings to feel when you’re driving a car.
"If you were driving your ca𓂃r at home and you pulled the wheels right underneath your legs, you would not be happy when you're approa𒀰ching the roundabout.
"What that does is it really changes the attitude of the car and how you perceive its movement. And it makes it harder to predict compared to when you're further back and sitting more centred. It is just something ﷽I have really struggled with."
Button - who spent three years as ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe seven-time champion’s teammate between 20♓10 and 2012 - simplified Hamilton’s complaints from a driver’s perspective.
“It’s [to do] with what he’s not feeling,” Button🐈 said during Sky’s Australian GP coverage. “I think that’s the biggest problem with Lewis.
“The way he drives, he’s quite aggressive on the throttl💟e, quite aggressive on the brake and he does everything through the steering wheel, so he really needs to feel what’s happening through the rear of the car through his arms.
“And he’s not getting that so he doesn’t have that confidence to push the car and these cars are tricky anyway, especially in qualifying, and if he doesn’t have that c💮onfidence, he’s not able to get the maximum out of it.”
Hamilton scored his first podium of F1 2023 in Melbourne, finishing second behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
He sits fourth in the drivers’ ch🍨ampionship after three rounds.
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