Hill: Hamilton has the most pressure on Mercedes

In response to the crisis at Mercedes, 1996 world champion Damon Hill spoke on the F1 Nation podcast about the pressure in F1…

Damon Hill: It’s hard to criticize employees. You don’t want to make anyone extreme, shift the responsibility, but Formula 1 is designed in such a way that it is impossible to hide. Someone will certainly look for what is done right and what is not – and those who make a mistake will be under great pressure. I don’t think Mattia Binotto had to leave Ferrari, but it happened. That is the nature of this sport.

At Mercedes, Lewis raised the issue. He came out and said, “I told the team [что машина не будет конкурентоспособна]They didn’t listen.” At Mercedes, it’s Lewis who puts the most pressure on the team. They know the problem, they know they have to solve it. As Toto Wolff said: “For us, this is an opportunity to show what we’re for being capable of.”

It would be foolish to write Mercedes off the bill and say they can’t fix it. But the problem is fundamental. They say it’s not the side pontoons, but obviously their side pontoons look different from all the others except Williams.

The Aston Martin is a copy of the Red Bull with even larger side pontoons than the original, just like the Ferrari. With the development of the car, these teams went in a different direction and at Mercedes they are still defending their concept, which seems fundamentally wrong.”