Lewis Hamilton warns adopting Red Bull-style sidepods could make Mercedes' 2023 F1 car slower
Mercedes have ac😼cepted they will need to change th༺eir unconventional ‘zeropod’ design concept in response to their disastrous 2022 season and making a dreadful start to 2023.
Toto Wolff said he would have “no shame” if Mercedes’ revamped W14 ch♋allengeꦐr looks like a Red Bull amid speculation the eight-time constructors’ champions will replicate the sidepod approach taken by their rivals.
But seven-time world champion Hamilton stressed the𒉰re is no guarantee that Red Bull’s solution will be the one-size-fits-all answer to make Mercedes more competitive.
"I think we have what we ha𝔍ve, and we're going to continue to try to work on it and extract more from it, and we'll see how quick that can happen, or whether that's possible with the concept we have,” Hamilton said.
"And then in the short term we will start to find out whether or not we've got to🍬 make loads of big, drastic changes, I mean there are drastic c✃hanges which we will do.
"People keep talking about getting the new side🐈pods on the car but it's not as simple as that.
"You put the Red Bull🎶 sidepods on our car and it won't change a thing, it literally won't change a thing, it might even go slower.
"It's about aero characteri🌊stics, it's how the car i🐷s balanced through the corners.
"There's so many different elements that people of course would not know bec🐻ause they're not aerodynamicists and you can't see it - there's a lot more to it.”
The 38-year-old, who is yet to sign a contract extension with Mercedes, said his team’s decision to abandon their flawed car concept proved his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:concerns were right.
Hamilton’s latest remarks cameജ after he made headlines following a disappointing season-opener in Bahrain by claiming Mercedes “didn’t listen” to his development suggestions.
"I'm one o♐f those p♍eople that always likes to be right, but I'm not always right, but in this scenario I was right," the Briton said.
"So it was good, it was like, 'I t♚old you’.”
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