Mercedes collapsed into the weakest time trial in ten years.
Lewis Hamilton dropped out of the time trial solution for the second time this season. AOP
All the pipes end sometimes.
The legality of the sport also applies to formula one and its modern giant Mercedes-AMG stable.
As many as 187 races of the Silver Arrow and a ten-year series in which at least one of its cars will reach the last part of the time trial ended in a descent in the rain of Imola.
– Oh good time, it’s amazing to watch Mercedes scurry over there. Already George Russellin watching me cause me back pain and headaches Nico Rosberg referred to Sky Sports bouncing the Silver Arrow on the track.
The German Finn won the 2016 World Championship in Mersu. He knows how the stable works.
And right now it’s working really badly.
– At the end of the straight, the drivers have to brake to full braking because they have no credit for bouncing in the car. They really have to fight the car, and no one seems to understand how to solve its aerodynamic problems.
The gaps are tightening
Rosberg’s words resonate in the lap clock. Both Russell (11th time trial) and Lewis Hamilton (13.) were left out of the last part.
For Hamilton, this is the second time in a season. It is very likely that it will not be the last.
– It wasn’t a great time trial. Naturally, it was a big disappointment, Hamilton began.
– I came here full of optimism. The whole stable does a lot of work, but things don’t go well. We underperformed as a team today. There were things we should have done, but we didn’t.
Fortunately for Mercedes, it wasn’t an ordinary time trial. Imola will run the first sprint race of the season, so both Hamilton and Russell will still have the opportunity to improve their starting races for Sunday’s race on Saturday.
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But that, too, is easier said than done.
– We work hard to get ahead. Maybe the weather is a little better, Hamilton sighed.
– This is it.
The TV pictures even showed how the team manager Toto Wolff seemed to sway in the direction of Hamilton.
– It’s an internal thing in the stable, so I’m not happy to say anything about it.
On the pile of Verstappen
Clearly, the rampage has already affected Hamilton’s race humor. Teammate Russell has rocked the seven-time world champion and did so again on Friday.
At the same time, he seems to be already much better informed about the soul life of the W13 car. For some reason, Mercedes takes much longer to get the tires to the optimum temperature. The problem was repeated in a time trial interrupted due to red flags, where there was no uniform section on the track.
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Hamilton will start Saturday’s sprint race from the 13th square. AOP
Bouncing the car, on the other hand, hasn’t made it any easier. In Imola, it was even so strong that the base plate of Russell’s car broke straight.
– They have to lift their feet straight off the gas. The car is clearly not fit to drive, Wolff turned his head to Sky Sports.
Max Verstappen secured a pole position in the sprint race. He gets to lead the World Cup next to him Charles Leclercin. Valtteri Bottas start from the eighth box.