Hamilton explained his radical change from Canada

He was surprised. He could not bear to look at the journalist. He closed his eyes in regret. sighed. “This car is horrible,” Hamilton said Friday at Canadacompletely submerged. “For me, it’s been a disaster, it seems like the car is just getting worse. It’s very complicated. It’s not the Montreal that I knew. I’ve never experienced a feeling like this on this circuit with any car.”Lewis pointed out. He experienced the first day of Free Practice in Montreal, then tried a new floor in his car which he was not entirely satisfied with. Who would have thought that two days later Lewis himself would finish third in the Canadian F1 GP? But the most striking was the huge difference between his comments on Friday and the Sunday after the race.

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We continue with Lewis ’complaints from Friday. “We tried a new floor in my car that really didn’t work and it seemed like a lot of things we tried on this car were hard to work with. We experimented with different setups on two cars in FP2, just trying to see if one method works and the other doesn’t. You have to keep working, it is what it is ”, added the 7-time champion, a week after complaining about his back due to the many rebounds suffered by his car, a Mercedes that continues to cause many problems and where emphasized by Hamilton. This is a racing car that does not seem to respond to changes in set-up.

However, two days later, the British said of his vehicle’s potential for the future: “I think there is more to come from this car. The potential is really there if we can get the setup right.” That’s the key: finding the right set-up. And Lewis himself extended his explanation.

“That’s the hardest thing this year, really trying to optimize the set-up. The window of this car is much, much smaller than any other car we’ve tried “, commented the Briton, who finished on the podium also thanks to the fact that everything went to his approach, which benefited from ‘Safety.’ , to reach third place.

This is the work from Friday to Sunday

Lewis Hamilton stressed the great work the team did to find the right settings on a car that was “a disaster” on Friday.

“We tried two different roads and the road I was riding on was horrible,” he said. “Friday’s balance is neutral and there is no rear. Which is constant and very hard to hide it in the walls. So I can’t finish my long run, because you just can’t drive in the setup window we tested. Just an experiment. That is, to see if the car worked like that, and it didn’t work, “he said.

“So we collected all the data we had and made drastic changes to the setup. And it was over, better this Sunday. It was more in line with what we expected and it went well,” he said. “We made changes and this Sunday is a better balance in terms of having a small amount of understeer, better traction, no popping. The difference is like night to day. But there are still rebounds. we, it won’t go away. “

It should be remembered that Mercedes was the team that suffered the most to lose ‘porpoising’. And when it was removed with its new aerodynamic package from Barcelona, ​​Mercedes was able to lower the car’s height, accepting another kind of bounce: caused by hitting the ground using the Baku potholes and Montreal. Mercedes should continue this, among many other things. The W13 has the potential to be the third best car in the race, but it still needs to improve a lot in one lap and in many other ways.