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Lewis Hamilton: “The car doesn’t seem to want to go fast”

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell had a complicated sprint race at Imola. The Mercedes will start outside the top 10 this Sunday.

Published on 24/04/2022 à 09:45

Valentin GLO

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Lewis Hamilton: “The car doesn’t seem to want to go fast”

The weekends follow one another and Mercedes still can't find the solution to make his W13 work. Eliminated for the first time in ten years in Q2, the two Silver Arrows were unable to use this Saturday's sprint race to get back on the grid. 

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"The car doesn't seem to want to go fast, despite everything we do, dropped Lewis Hamilton, 14th, in a laugh of resignation at the Canal Plus microphone. We were stuck in traffic and had a similar pace to the cars around us. » Faced with this lack of pace, Mercedes will try to rely on strategy to finish in the points. “We are going to try to shift our strategy, confirms the seven-time world champion. I don't know how exactly yet, but we'll just have to try to go back car by car. It's frustrating when everyone in front of you has DRS, but that's how it is. »

“There was a DRS train behind Hag et Schumacher, agrees his teammate George Russell, still at the microphone of Canal Plus. This did not allow us to overtake. We could never get close enough to be in situation. Scoring points will be the minimum this Sunday. I hope we will be able to move up to fifth place, where the car should be able to be. » What the dolphin Charles Leclerc in the championship before this weekend demonstrated on Saturday by dominating the second Free Practice session on Saturday noon.

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Valentin GLO

Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.

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YVES CHAMPOD

24/04/2022 at 11:06 a.m.

And THE best driver in the world, of all time, can do nothing to move it forward? ? ? . . . He has to ask George, his new teammate, who goes faster than the multi-time world champion! . . .

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