F1 champion Damon Hill's concerning observation about ‘perplexed’ Mercedes: "The lowest I’ve heard them sound"
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton could only finish seventh, one place ahead of teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, on what Merce⛎des boss Toto Wolff described as a “bruising day” for his side in Austria.
Despite starting fifth on the grid and jumping McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris into fourth with a strong start, Hamilton struggled for pace and was hit with ♏a time penalty forꦡ track limits as he slipped back to P7.
Russell rose from 11th to finish eighth but both drivers were left despondent and admitted they expected 💦more from their underperforming W14 🌱at the Red Bull Ring.
“That’s the lowest I’ve heard them sound,”ꦆ 1996 F1 world champion Hill said during Sky F1’s post-race aಌnalysis.
“It has swun🅘g in the wrong direction, at this particular venue, by quite a long way. They are perplexed by that.
“They will be looking forward to Silverstone,🍌 they know it’s a different character of track. They might be more in their zone.”
Hamilton let out a barrage of frustrated radio messages throughout the race, leading to an intervention from Wolff to try and calm the seven-ಌtime world champion down.
“It’s a litt𓆉le bit stressful to hear,” Sky F1’s Naomi Schiff said. “You don’t hear Lewis lose his cool on the radi🌞o. Today, he was frustrated.
“I think some of that [is because]𝄹 some cars have brought updates, and they h𝄹aven’t.
“McLaren have made a big step forward, Ferrari have made a big step forward, that w🤡ill obviously𝔍 be a part of the pace difference.
“Fernando wasn’t as far up the road, so that could be playing ﷺinto it.
“The thing that’s strange is ⛎that a track like this typically the gaps are closer, rather than bigger, so it’s a concer🌸n.
“You can see how disappointed Toto was.”
Aston Martin’s former head of strategy and fellow Sky pundit Bernie Collins added: “There is very little recovery from this, straight int🤪o a race next week.
“They need to figure it out quickly.
“Y🎃ou need to get on top of it quickly, there will be a lot of🧸 analysis going on - the tyres, the pace deficit.
“It’s how quickly you can turn around thatꦜ analysis, find a solution, and get it on the car.
“With races hammering along in the ꦗbackground, the points are drifting away all the time.”
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