FEATURE
Nico Rosberg leads Lewis Hamilton
by 26 points with three races left in the
21-race schedule.
Despite the utter dominance of the
team, technical gremlins have plagued
the them with Hamilton appearing to be
victim of the brunt of the bad luck this
season.
After winning the United States
Garnd Prix, hassle free and comfortably,
the reigning world champion admitted
that he was stressing in the cockpit.
“Every single lap I was thinking
something might happen. When I get on
that back straight I was petrified. [The
engine] has a beautiful ring to it, but it
had a beautiful ring in Malaysia.”
“I was haunted by that, dreading that
would happen so I am so grateful that
it didn’t. It wasn’t until I got over the line
that I was like thank you, I am so happy,
rubbing the cockpit – thank you for
getting me there,” added Hamilton.
As a precautionary measure the
team opted not to take any upgrades
to Austin, Wolff reasoned, “We have
decided not to bring the latest spec
engine and upgrades to every single
Mercedes customer, not just us. We are
running that specification to what it can
run, so that hasn’t changed.”
“It is never plain sailing. It was as
good as it can be with the engine. I
understand that Malaysia came out of
nowhere and Malaysia swings with all of
us. That little trauma is going to remain
for a while,” ventured Wolff.