'Imagine if you are creeping up behind a horse and you're trying to get as close as possible, what's the breaking point before it kicks you in the face?' Hamilton speaks about the challenges of finding the limits in his Mercedes F1 car.⬇️
W13, which has suffered from excessive bouncing and a lack of performance.
Hamilton said that he knew from the very first test with the car before the start of the season that things were not going to be easy, but he had hoped the team would get on top of things quicker than it did. "You just hold on to hope. And then the next upgrade comes and it doesn't work, and the next one comes and doesn't work. Imagine people that are building those things and they are seeing performance in the wind tunnel but they are not seeing it on the track. Ah Jesus, you just keep getting knocked back down.
"Stiffness, global stiffness of the car, to the point that the suspension is pretty useless. Stiffer than the tyres. The tyres are then squashing and bouncing, so we're bouncing on the tyres as well."And then aero characteristics. Drag is a huge problem for us. When we get past a certain speed that's when other people are pulling away.
"The whole idea of performing at your best and getting the best result each weekend, of course, that would be nice but I was really about problem-solving. So: 'I will sacrifice this session or all the sessions to be able to find more data and information for you.' So that when we go back to the factory they've got a better understanding of what's going on. But it ultimately hindered some of the weekends.
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