The technical problem is caused by the vehicles that have changed significantly this season. At high speed, the cars on the straights are pressed onto the ground until they briefly touch the asphalt and are then pushed up again. The drivers are repeatedly shaken violently.
Hamilton was probably the worst affected pilot, suspected team boss Wolff. “The solution could be to keep someone in reserve, which we have at every race anyway, so that we can be sure that our cars are going,” said the Austrian. The replacement drivers at Mercedes are Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne and Dutchman Nyck de Vries.