UNHAPPY CAR
I
t is fair to say that Lewis
Hamilton and Mercedes were
out of sorts at the Monaco
Grand Prix and the Briton admits
that he and his engineers were
left somewhat stumped by the
below-par performance of his car
on the streets of Monte Carlo.
Hamilton, who finished
seventh on the day, told reporters
after the race, “It’s not a happy
car at the moment. It’s the most
unusual the car has felt in all the
years I’ve been with the team.
We’re no closer to understanding
it but we definitely have to
improve and see if we can do a
better job.”
Things looked up on
Thursday morning when Hamilton
topped the timing screens in
FP1, but thereafter it was as if
Mercedes went AWOL and were
never at the street party for the
rest of the weekend.
“It’s a difficult one and there
are so many things we need
to look into to understand why
one car will make it work and
the other won’t. It was definitely
unexpected for the engineers.
They corrected things and it was
worse so then we went back to
this unknown scenario. It turned
out to be OK on Valtteri’s car but
not great on mine,” revealed the
triple F1 World Champion.