🗣️'On exits these guys have a lot of rear end through the majority of the corners' Lewis Hamilton thinks his Mercedes F1 team is 1.5 seconds per lap slower than Red Bull in race trim and requires some 'bold decisions' to return to the front ⬇️
And while he explained on Thursday that it"wasn't necessarily the best choice of words" he did feel like Mercedes wouldn't be able to close the gap once he had seen the 2023 car's concept still looked vastly different compared to the competition.
"But what's important is that we continue to communicate, we continue to pull together, I still have 100% belief in this team." "It looked still so much different to those of our competitors and it's always nerve-racking in that moment."Mercedes now had to radically change design concept"We've seen the proof is in the pudding and we've seen where the performance is and how people are extracting the performance," Hamilton explained.Motorsport Images
"[Red Bull] will run away with it most likely this year, unless Ferrari can probably stop them, but hopefully at some point during the year we're hopeful we might be able to close the gap.
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