Lewis Hamilton could hear a 'clicking' sound under braking on the US GP Sprint formation lap.
Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton have closure on a W15 suspension issue which he flagged up on the US GP Sprint formation lap.came over team radio before the action had even gotten underway, complaining during the formation lap that he could hear a “clicking” sound under braking.When Mercedes got the car back after the Sprint and investigated, they found that the issue came from a broken bearing.
“When we stripped the car after the Sprint race, a race in which he struggled to get the car’s handling to be sweet-natured, we found that one of the bearings that holds one of the wishbones on had started to break up. Hamilton’s Saturday in Austin would not get much better as later that day, he suffered a shock Q1 exit in qualifying for the United States Grand Prix.“Had we fixed it entirely by qualifying? Yes, we had replaced that part, and that problem did not re-emerge,” Allison confirmed.
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