Breaking: Lewis Hamilton Shocked The Whole Mercedes Team And The Formula1 Community With Sudden Decision To Retire…
After a disappointing end to the season in Bahrain for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton said his team did not listen to him in the development of their 2023 car.
The seven-time British Formula One world champion told reporters last week that Mercedes and the W14 went wrong before he finished fifth in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. “Last year I spoke to them. I said the problems with the car,” Hamilton told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Checkered Flag podcast. “I’ve driven a lot of cars in in my life to know what the car needs. I understand why the car doesn’t need it. I think it’s really responsible.
“It’s about ownership and saying: Well, you know what? We didn’t listen to you, it’s not the place to do it. We’ve got to look into the balance through the corners, look at all the weak points, and just huddle up as a team. That’s what we do,” Hamilton said..
Hamilton is F1’s most successful driver of all time, with a record 103 wins, but is out of contract at the end of the season. The 38-year-old failed to win a race last year, a career first for a season, but has dismissed suggestions he might be holding off on a new deal until he knew how competitive his car was.
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Hamilton told the BBC that there was still time for Mercedes, whose run of eight successive constructors’ titles ended last year, to turn the situation around: “We’re still multi-world champions, you know? Only this time we didn’t. “We didn’t make it last year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t.” Mercedes-Benz team principal Toto Wolff admitted in Bahrain that Mercedes needs to rethink the car: “I don’t think this package has any competition. “We made a mistake last year, we thought we could solve the problem by sticking to the concept of the car and it didn’t work,” said the Austrian about the car, standing out for its small wheels. unlike its red. color blue solution Two-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen won in Bahrain, while Mexico’s Sergio Perez reached the final once and twice. Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin is the third Mercedes car. Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell finished seventh, the Mercedes-Benz duo crossing the finish line in Bahrain by almost a minute, unchallenged by Verstappen, who was running from the back of the grid two.
