Lewis Hamilton endured one of the most disappointing seasons of his F1 career, without a win and with Mercedes his team failed to develop a challenger.
Lewis Hamilton has spoken about his frustration with Mercedes this season Lewis Hamilton made big, big speeches With Mercedes because the team didn’t know how to fix their bad cars earlier this year.
Mercedes started the season with the W14, which seemed to unsettle its predecessor. The team captured the “zeropod a concept that firmly believes that it can release the potential of internal momentum. But it only took them one race to give it up.
Team principal Toto Wolff admitted after the Bahrain GP that a change was necessary if his team was to get anything out of the season. And Hamilton says he already knew things weren’t going well. And I remember feeling exactly the same, he told the BBC, referring to his impressions of the W14 after its shakedown session at Silverstone in February.
It really wasn’t a great feeling. I had very high hopes… In February, when we uploaded where the car was going, I was a little scared because the previous year it was like the car is fantastic, this is unique, no one has done it. and nothing like that will come And then we come to the first test… So, I listened a little more carefully and I was like goodbye.
And then the car had all these problems. I just knew it was going to be a long year.Fast forward a few weeks to that first race in year.Bahrain and his worst fears came true. He took aim at his Mercedes team after this weekend, accusing them of not listening to his views on the car, and has now doubled down on his convictions.
Referring to big, big talks Hamilton continued: and there was definitely frustration because I asked for some changes and they weren’t made… No one knew exactly what the problem was – no one knew how to fix it. With last year’s experience, I only looked for myself to complain, to sit with my friends.
We had much better meetings. I was able to be much more positive and so during the year and it will be a long season but not to give up. constantly trying to get the most out of the car, whatever it is. I think about this year they thought, the foundations are good and we just have to go here. And it wasn’t.
So I was disappointed in February because they didn’t make changes or ask. But we definitely had a North Star at the beginning of the year, because we know exactly which direction we have to aim. It was like a zigzag line trying to get to where we need to be. Every now and then something positive happens. You’re like Okay, it is and it is. And then it moves, so the goal post is always moving, which is typical.
