168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton labelled Mercedes’ W14 as the168澳洲幸运5ꦅ官方开奖结果历史: “hardest car that I’ve ever driven to get right” after qualifying at the Singapore Grand Prix as he rued a set-up change that resulted in him ending up off the pace of teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell. 

Both Hamilton and Russell have highlighted th﷽e dif꧑ficulties they have had trying to extract the maximum out of Mercedes’ 2023 challenger this year, which has been hamstrung by balance and performance issues. 

Speaking at the Japanese Grand Prix, Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin explained the team are working tꦕo make♛ sure the W15 has a more consistent baseline.  

“We’re doing a lot of work t⭕o try and solve the problems on this car to make sure we don’t have them next year,” Shovlin said. 

“We have moved it forward. The car we had previously in🍨 2022, that tended to be an awfully way off in qualifying, it was generally racing a bit better. The performance was very, very track-specific. 

“Some areas we have improved but the big issue is we are just not quick ꦇenough, so we need to find a good chunk of performance to challenge Red Bull in particular. 

“But the other thing is that the field is now super close. You look at some of the gaps we had 12 months ago. You have a dec🅠ent qualifying position - you might be fourth or fifth on the grid, but you were eight or nine tenths. Now if you do that, you end up getting bumped off in Q1 or Q2. 

“There’s🎃 🗹lots for us to work on and a lot of that will be making sure we can give the drivers the confidence that they are lacking at the moment. 

“That’s the big area [to🐈 improve]. We have some interesting proj𒊎ects and hopefully they’ll come off.”