MANAMA : Mercedes need to rethink their car to give Lewis Hamilton a chance of winning a record eighth Formula One title, or take George Russell to a first, team boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday.The once-dominant team took only one win last year and dropped to third overall after a run of eight successive
MANAMA : Mercedes need to rethink their car to give Lewis Hamilton a chance of winning a record eighth Formula One title, or take George Russell to a first, team boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday.
Hamilton told reporters on Friday at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix that Mercedes were on the wrong track and, after Russell qualified sixth and his team mate seventh, Wolff agreed a change of direction was needed. "We got it wrong last year, we thought we could fix it by sticking to this concept of car and it didn't work out," he explained.
"We gave it our best shot and the moment comes when the stopwatch comes out. And that showed us that it's simply not good enough. We haven't got enough downforce and we need to find solutions to fix that."
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