Glimmer of hope for Lewis Hamilton? Senior Mercedes figure downplays “gloomy” F1 testing order
After🐬 three days of running in Bahrain, Mercedes appear to be the third-best team at best heading 𓆏into this weekend’s season-opening race.
There’s even some suggestions that they could be behind Aston Martin, who run Mercedes engin༺es.
However, Slater 🍷has been told by a Mercedes ⭕senior figure that their form isn’t potentially as bad as it has been made out to be.
“What about Mercedes, a lot of doom and gloom in terms of the reporting of how they got on this week,” Slater said on Sky Sports F1’s 🌳season preview.
“I was speaking to a senior figure from the team today who said that it was overly gloomy, 🌌the assess🅺ment of where they’re at.
“[The senior figure was] saying: ‘Don’t forget, this is testing. We are developing a car not specifically for Bahrain, but to be the best car over the year. We have more parts that come. We expected based on Red Bull’s♋ performance last year to have to start the ꧒season behind them, that is possibly’ – and they use the term possibly – ‘where we will start.’
“And they also said: ‘But we do think we’re in a fight a good scrap with Aston Martin and with Ferrari for second place.’ That would put a much more positive spin on 𒆙things if𒊎 that is the case.
Mercedes head into F1 2023 on the✅ back of their worst campaign in over a decade.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell won the team’s only race of 2022, while Hamilton was ꧋winless for the first time▨ in his F1 career, slumping to sixth in the championship standings.
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