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For the Formula 1 team of Mercedes-AMG, there is increasing hope of success, now that the new design of the car seems to be working. Although Lewis Hamilton hopes that the backlog can be made up even further, he warns that his team should already look at 2024.
It really seems that Mercedes has done wisely to overhaul the car. The team decided itszero pods‘ to exchange for more conventional sidepods and also for the suspension at the front they went back to the drawing board. Since the Monaco Grand Prix, the W14 therefore looks much more like the other F1 cars and that improves performance. In Spain and Canada, Mercedes was already a bit closer to Red Bull, were it not for the fact that the safety car slightly distorted Max Verstappen’s lead in Canada. Lewis Hamilton obviously thinks it is a positive development. “It’s really fantastic for us to finish on the podium twice in a row,” quoted Motorsport. “In Monaco we were also fourth, so we are really getting closer.”
According to Hamilton, it is now a matter of continuing to develop on this basis, which seems to have much more potential than the previous one. However, Mercedes is in a tricky package. Red Bull is logically impossible to overtake, but Mercedes has entered a tough battle with Aston Martin for second place in the constructors’ championship. However, Hamilton seems to want to focus mainly on the championship, but next year: “I think Max (Verstappen, ed.) His team is already working on next year’s car, so we have to focus our attention on that as well. to shift.” The seven-time world champion thinks that Red Bull is already so comfortable in the lead with the current car that that team may even be able to fully bet on 2024. “Probably they will win every race this year unless we or Aston Martin get much faster or they don’t finish.”
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