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The stars faced various problems in Bahrain during the first two days, Lewis hamilton Y Valtteri Bottas He also lost valuable time on the track by reporting that the rear of the car was not stable enough.
In vain they closed the last day without problems, but they have run the fewest kilometers in the general test, which is exactly the opposite of what we are used to in recent years.
Hamilton finished today with the fifth fastest time, but still a second behind Max Verstappen’s best result at Red Bull. As Red Bull tries to shed its favorite role, the Mercedes Chief Engineer Andrew Shovlin said they are at a disadvantage according to the data.
“We managed to improve a bit in terms of a lot of fuel balance and the car was more predictable, but we can see from the data that we are not at a competitive pace at Red Bull level. The picture with less fuel was already a bit more confusing, we didn’t get enough data so we need to look at our approach because there were too many cars at a better pace than ours today. “
“We have had problems with speed in the winter in previous years, but we have always managed to progress well until the first race, but this time it seems we will have a lot of work to do.”
“We will be back here soon, so we have designed a program to understand the difficulties and move each stone to find more speed for the next ten days.”
Mercedes spent the final day of testing with Bottas focusing on longer stage settings in the morning, while Hamilton also ran a combination of longer periods and timekeeping simulations in the afternoon.
However, despite putting the C5 mix smoother, Hamilton still couldn’t get anywhere near Verstappen’s fastest lap time. “We have improved some today, but we are not yet where we want to be. I can’t single out one area, we just need to improve overall. I’m looking forward to racing again and getting back to full focus, “said Hamilton.
Gasly was pleased to announce that they were better than last year.
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