News Details

Mercedes reveals extent of Hamilton's car damage

In Mercedes first Pure Pitwall video of the season, chief strategist James Vowles admits that Lewis Hamilton did a 'fantastic job' in fending off Max Verstappen in the closing stages of Sunday's Australian Grand Prix as the full extent of his car's damage is revealed. 'On inspection of Lewis' car after the race, we noticed some damage on what we call the tyre seal area,' reveals Vowles. 'We saw the broken carbon just in front of the rear tyre on that floor region. 'That area is quite sensitive aerodynamically,' he continues, 'both for downforce and also for balance of the car, and we believe we sustained it during the race while riding over some kerbs. 'Lewis already had a very long stint...
Full Story »
6y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mercedes reveals floor damage hurt Hamilton’s pace

Mercedes says Lewis Hamilton’s Australian Grand Prix was hampered after...
6y ago from Crash.net

Lewis Hamilton was missing ‘chunk’ of floor –...

Mercedes has revealed that Lewis Hamilton was missing a...
6y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Mercedes discovers damage to Hamilton's floor

Keen to understand why his pace was so poor during today's Australian...
6y ago from Pitpass.com

Mercedes confirm Hamilton suffered from floor damage

Australian Grand Prix – The car being driven by Lewis Hamilton in...
6y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Race start times for 2026 IndyCar season announced

The NTT IndyCar Series has announced the race broadcast start times for...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Gregoire Munster confirmed for WRC Monte Carlo in...

The season opener marks a return to the event where Munster claimed his...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal conceding late goals is not a defence issue -...

Another fright before Christmas. Arsenal never seem to do it the easy way.
3h ago from SkySports.com

‘This is something he is never going to forget’:...

ayo Saka and Gabriel Magalhães among those playing games with children,...
6h ago from TheGuardian.com

Arsenal 1-1 Crystal Palace (8-7 pens): Own goal, late...

Match report – Player ratings – Arteta reaction – Quotes...
5h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.