After finishing the race in Jeddah, Lewis Hamilton complained about the car’s lack of stability in fast corners, which caused him to lose time to his rivals. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted that the team has fundamental problems with the car that have not yet been resolved.
“Our simulations indicate the direction, the range of settings that we can select for a specific circuit, and if we manage to do everything correctly, we can gain back a few tenths,” Racingnews365 quotes Toto Wolff. – We don’t have a huge reserve of speed, and the problems we face are quite fundamental.
We believe we have speed, but to unlock it we need to increase downforce, but through simulation we cannot find a way in which this can be done.
It has been two years since we started looking for a solution that would allow us to achieve more speed. The lack of results is not due to the team not trying hard enough. On the contrary, we are working hard and over the next two weeks we will analyze the data collected so that we can return to Melbourne stronger. This is our mission and I am 100% confident that we can get more speed out of the car.
Our real weak point is speed in fast corners. We can increase downforce by installing a larger rear wing, but it’s not that simple. With a small rear wing we compensate for the loss of time in the corners on the straights, but when it comes to fast corners, we can no longer make up for the loss, which is reflected in the lap time.”
Source: F1 News
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