In the Round-Up: Lewis Hamilton Expresses Disappointment Over Lack of Success in Final Season with Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton opens up on Mercedes pain: I’ve had enough of this 

Hamilton finds it “painful” not to succeed.

The lack of success the team has enjoyed thus far, according to Hamilton, is “the most painful part” of leaving Mercedes to join Ferrari next year. He has not yet placed among the top five in a grand prix.

He told CBS, “I think everyone on the team wants it to be a great year.” “No one has put in less effort than before at the factory. Everyone has worked so hard.”

“Because I love this team so deeply, this entire trip has been really emotional for me. I’m not unhappy there, so I’m not leaving. My departure is not due to problems in my relationship. I have loved Mercedes since the brand first backed me when I was 13. I adore the folks. They have supported me through good times and bad. Thus, the transition is undoubtedly peculiar at the moment.

With the exception of the 2021 penultimate round, Hamilton has not won a race. “It’s been difficult,” he said. Naturally, our purpose is to succeed, and when that doesn’t happen, you have to change your viewpoint. And all that’s been involved is improvement and chase. It has to do with uniting. What changes can we make? How can we regroup, get everyone out, and get back to where we want to be?

“It was a really fun experience, in fact. But after three years, we decide to return to our proper place because we’ve had enough of this.

The way Russell’s automobile felt wasn’t right.

During Sunday’s race, George Russell admitted he felt uneasy in his Mercedes.”To be honest, the entire race was pretty awful,” he said to the official F1 channel. “I started out well, but I believe Checo was the one who sent it down the inside. When he came back, everyone had to catch up, which cost me three spots. and proceeded to walk at almost no pace. It didn’t feel exactly correct, so I need to verify the data and the car.

According to Russell, the weekend of the Miami Grand Prix “definitely felt like a more difficult weekend than all of the others.” However, the outcomes have all been quite comparable.

On a good day, we are in the P5 to P8 range. We completed P8, but today was a terrible day. Lewis drove incredibly well, had a great day, and ended P6. And we are kind of in that situation.

“It’s not really wise to defend in Miami,” said Albon

Because there is little grip out from the racing line at Miami’s Formula One Circuit, Alexander Albon claims that defending position is nearly impossible.

He said on the official F1 channel, “It’s so dirty off-line here, you’re defending but you shouldn’t really be defending because it’s putting dirt on your tyres and then when you brake, you lock up.” It’s one of those situations where you have to maintain your position even though you didn’t really want to defend.

Due to his early pit stop in Sunday’s race, Albon was exposed to attacks from drivers who subsequently changed their tires, forcing him to make a further pit stop at the conclusion of the race.

We didn’t move at such a slow speed, he claimed. Simply put, the vehicles in back of us all had brand-new tires. As a result, I served as everyone else’s backstop. The guys can’t really hold you off when they have tires that are 25, 30, or even older than you. We probably would have been okay if we hadn’t been the final car and had been one or two positions ahead, with someone else acting as the buffer.