'...sometimes wanted to go in his direction, but the engineers would be like: ‘No, the computer says this’.' F1
Valtteri Bottas has said he and Lewis Hamilton were both sometimes overruled when deciding how they wanted their cars to be set up, as the computer simulations at Mercedes found there to be time improvements based on the data they had.
The Finn believes it was the correct thing to have had computers lead the way when setting up the cars on some occasions, but not every time for how he wanted to drive what was underneath him.“I feel like Lewis felt the same as well. He sometimes wanted to go in his direction, but the engineers would be like: ‘No, the computer says this’.
“They have pretty advanced technology and simulation tools that allow it and quite often the computer was right but not 100 per cent.”to bring on more staff members to get up to the levels of other teams on the grid, to compete on more of an equal footing.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
‘Any more than 25 F1 races a season would mean a need for two teams’Valtteri Bottas thinks if the F1 calendar increased to 25 races a season, that would represent an 'insurmountable limit' for team staff.
Read more »
Horner: Verstappen ‘rattled’ Hamilton in F1 2021 title fight💬 “It was high stakes stuff and your emotions run high, but it probably affected Lewis arguably more than Max' Did Max Verstappen hold a psychological advantage over Lewis Hamilton last season? Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner thinks so...
Read more »
‘Any more than 25 F1 races a season would mean a need for two teams’Valtteri Bottas thinks if the F1 calendar increased to 25 races a season, that would represent an 'insurmountable limit' for team staff.
Read more »
Kimi Raikkonen may have won more titles ‘if he applied himself like Lewis Hamilton’Kimi Raikkonen could have won “many World Championships” if he had dedicated himself to F1 like Lewis Hamilton has, says Marc Priestley.
Read more »