'Nowhere near' podium contention and 'miles off' Ferrari is how Lewis Hamilton summed up Mercedes' situation after the BahrainGP. F12023 F1
Lewis Hamilton: Mercedes ‘nowhere near’ podium contention and ‘miles off’ FerrariLewis Hamilton aims to be a “positive light” at Mercedes with the W14 not the “right car” and adrift of podium-level performance.
Sainz had dropped back in the latter stages of the race, and was passed by Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso not long after a Virtual Safety Car period caused by Charles Leclerc’s retirement in the other Ferrari. “It was close for a second [with Sainz] and then just couldn’t hold on to him, he just kept pulling away, so did the best I could.”
“No, we’re miles off,” Hamilton said in response to the podium talk. “There was a Ferrari that would have been ahead of him [Alonso], so we would have really been sixth, a podium was nowhere near.” “It generally felt the same as last year,” said Hamilton when put to him that race pace now seems no better than one-lap performance.
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