'We are living in a time of a cost cap, to rebuild and redo a design of a car, you have to go back to square one, and we don't have time in a season to do that, so that's not on the cards.' F1 MercedesF1 LewisHamilton
Mercedes were confident that their unique zero-pod concept was not an underlying flaw of the troublesome W13, that challenger failing to allow Hamilton and team-mate George Russell to fight for 2022 title glory.
It led to paddock talk that Mercedes had an alternative route for the W14 in mind if they needed to pull the trigger, one which would see it looking similar to the challenger of Red Bull or Ferrari, the two main rivals of Mercedes. And as Hamilton spoke ahead of the season-opener in Bahrain, he was keen to put an end to any suggestions of an alternative W14, branding such rumours as “complete rubbish” and impossible to execute when there is a budget cap active in Formula 1.
“I mean, ultimately, we are living in a time of a cost cap, to rebuild and redo a design of a car, you have to go back to square one, and we don’t have time in a season to do that, so that’s not on the cards.“I know I’ve got the best team behind me to to close the gap, but it’s just finding that performance as fast as we can.”
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