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Lewis was pretty pissed towards the end there, seemed like once again his car's behaviour changed for...no reason. Also tried riding the kerb and car nearly spun
So the old spec car is faster than the new and apparently improved car...merc has really come undone now.
Maybe Rus was just faster?
Oh I forgot that kimi damaged the floor on Lewis's car...no replacement and a botched up repair...according to toto it would lose him 0.2 per lap...explains a lot. But whatever...merc are in no man's land...will end up where they started...
Toto's reaction said it all, throw the car in the bin. I expect them to be in no mans land tomorrow.
“And that’s part of the game, is being able to be adaptive, and we’ve got this new car – I don’t know how it’s going to handle, hopefully she’s great.”
So the old spec car is faster than the new and apparently improved car...merc has really come undone now.
Maybe Rus was just faster?
Oh I forgot that kimi damaged the floor on Lewis's car...no replacement and a botched up repair...according to toto it would lose him 0.2 per lap...explains a lot. But whatever...merc are in no man's land...will end up where they started...
in FP2 maybe, but there's no way he's still running with a damaged floor that costs him 0.2s a lap.
Toto said they cant replace the floor so they will just repair it but it wont be good as the new floor, how much performance that cost him, if any, i guess we'll see when they do their interviews or post race debrief. i dont think the floor itself is what really cost him there, he was on radio complaining about the car not feeling like it did in FP3 then that clip of him trying to ride the kerb and the car nearly spinning
“The car felt good in FP3 and then qualifying… I didn’t change anything and then qualifying just completely turned on its head. Definitely frustrating but that’s every qualifying session that I’ve had this year.”
“There’s no way we’re going to be [going from 6th to 2nd like last year] this weekend with the car that we have, I don’t think. Maybe George is more comfortable in the older package, we’ll see. We’ll get a good reading of which is best for the future.”
Sigh yeah the car felt good in FP3 blah blah. Its the same broken record. Whatever there doing (or not doing) they can't get the car in the window and on Lewis's side its been the case all season. At this moment in time after the season he has had in qualy, you have to point the finger to him. He can't drive this car the way he can and if he can't adapt to Ferrari's traits then its closed curtains. His driving style is not working with the W15. Fk knows what his engineers are doing but there probably tired with Lewis's demands in general.
Edit. Russell has the Miami spec floor , missed alot of running and still got the job done. Its not good enough. It really isn't
“And that’s part of the game, is being able to be adaptive, and we’ve got this new car – I don’t know how it’s going to handle, hopefully she’s great.”
