Lewis Hamilton Believes to be facing aerodynamic problems with the new update mercedes brought to usa gp They can be blamed for their early exit formula 1 this Sunday.
The seven-time world champion ended a tough event in Austin by becoming the first and only retirement of the race after spinning into the gravel pit at Turn 19 on the third lap.
with teammates george russell Faced similar changes in qualifying and hamilton Having another secret in training, he suspects that the surge caused by the new W15 update may be the root cause of all the team’s problems.
Reflecting on my run in the race, hamilton told motorsport.com,
“I had a very good start, I was feeling good and I came 12th. It was my best start into the first corner in a long time.”
“At that point, I wasn’t even pushing hard; I was really just trying to ride and warm up the tires.”
“The car started to bounce, the front left side started to bounce and the back end flipped over. It was the same thing that happened with George yesterday.”
Mercedes-AMG F1 Team’s Lewis Hamilton gets a chance to turn around and go back to the pits after retiring from racing
Photo by: Jack Mauger/Motorsport Images
Considering the combination of that and Russell Encountered almost similar incidents, hamilton The idea was that the team needed to analyze the impact of the new package brought to the United States.
“The same thing happened in Turn 1,” he said. “I spun in Turn 3, which is very rare. I’ve never spun in Turn 3 in all the years I’ve been here.”
“I was saying that George apparently had the same problem yesterday, but he went back to the old spec car and is doing well, so maybe there’s something to do with the new update.”
When asked whether the possibility of problems has opened up mercedes Revert to your old specification for mexican gp next weekend, hamilton He said:
“We’ll investigate as much as we can, and after today we’ll get the data and see if we’re going to use the old or new specification next week.”
hamilton Went through a rollercoaster of a weekend in Austin, where once again the car’s floating form was seen mercedes Confused the drivers and the team.
After appearing on track for pole position in Friday’s sprint race, his efforts derailed by yellow flags, his hopes of a strong comeback in Saturday’s contest were dashed early on by suspension problems.
At the end of the day, he suffered a nightmare in the main qualifying session as he failed to make it out of Q1 and finished 19th fastest.
Thanks to his teammate for the start, after starting 17th on the grid george russell More fines in the pitlane Liam Lawson On the grid, he made a great start before spinning out to finish the first lap in 12th place.
hamilton Admittedly, because of the way the car was behaving, it was always likely that it would finish the race with an incident.
“If I hadn’t had the collision problem on that lap, I think it would have happened on a later lap because there was something wrong with the car,” he said.
“It was the same thing for most of the weekend with this new package of ours, so it was obviously devastating. But things are what they are.”
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