LONDON, June 19 — Six times world champion Lewis Hamilton can expect a quicker car when the Formula One season finally starts in Austria next month, with Mercedes promising plenty of updates. The W11 car unveiled in February has yet to race, with the season delayed since March by the Covid-19...
Mercedes technical director James Allison expected Lewis Hamilton and team mate Valtteri Bottas to return strongly after the blow of going all the way to Australia only for the season-opener to be cancelled in March. — AFP pic
“There was the whole of January, the whole of February, March, all making the car quicker in the wind tunnel and also in the design departments,” he said in a video on the Mercedes YouTube channel today. Mercedes have won the last six drivers’ and constructors’ championships and were fastest in pre-season testing in Spain in February.The season will start with two races at Austria’s Red Bull Ring on July 5 and 12. And Allison said that already felt “desperately close”.
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