{"id":76737,"date":"2023-03-04T01:43:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/lewis-hamilton-concedes-weve-got-a-lot-to-work-on-as-mercedes-struggles-at-practice\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T01:43:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:43:17","slug":"lewis-hamilton-concedes-weve-obtained-loads-to-work-on-as-mercedes-struggles-at-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/lewis-hamilton-concedes-weve-obtained-loads-to-work-on-as-mercedes-struggles-at-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton concedes \u2018we\u2019ve obtained loads to work on\u2019 as Mercedes struggles at apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"2id6H2\">Questions proceed to linger round Mercedes forward of the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, the primary race of the 2023 Formula 1 season. After an up-and-down three days at pre-season testing per week in the past, the primary two apply classes failed to supply the crew with the solutions they had been searching for forward of the season\u2019s begin.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eFdqvX\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot to work on,\u201d mentioned Lewis Hamilton after the apply in a press release offered to the media, together with <em>SB Nation<\/em>. \u201cWe knew we were behind some of our competitors at testing and today, we found out that we are a long way off. We\u2019ll keep our heads down tonight, go through the data, and continue to work to find some progress for tomorrow. We\u2019ve got to find out if we can add performance overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"KgHTPl\">For Hamilton\u2019s teammate, George Russell, the W14 is likely to be higher over the lengthy runs, however qualifying may very well be one other huge query. \u201cIt looks like our race pace is slightly stronger than our one-lap pace right now,\u201d Said Russell after the 2 apply classes. \u201cWe will continue to look at this as we need to find more lap time. It\u2019s difficult to say exactly where we are in the order, but we want to be higher up the timing sheets than we were today. It\u2019s only our fourth day with the W14, though, so we need to make sure we have it in the right window and are reaching its full potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"eUd1lM\">Why it might be the case that the W14 is best over the lengthy runs, it nonetheless shouldn&#8217;t be the place it must be for Mercedes Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin. \u201cWe made some changes going into the afternoon and the cooler conditions seemed to help in terms of the feel and balance, but the pace is still lacking,\u201d mentioned Shovlin after the apply classes. \u201cSingle lap seems more of an issue than the long run but neither are good enough, so we\u2019ve clearly got some work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"B6QaiV\">Still, there&#8217;s time for Mercedes to show this round, and the season is simply getting underway. \u201cWe\u2019ve got some ideas to evaluate overnight so hopefully we can put together a package of changes that will help,\u201d mentioned Shovlin on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p id=\"s8uRAx\">Hamilton shared the same sentiment, whereas praising the work of everybody at Mercedes. \u201cEveryone continues to work so hard and is so courageous and thoughtful in the process. We need to continue to graft away and get ourselves back on the right track.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Questions proceed to linger round Mercedes forward of the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, the primary race of the 2023 Formula 1 season. After an up-and-down three days at pre-season testing per week in the past, the primary two apply classes failed to supply the crew with the solutions they had been searching for forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}