Both drivers seemed to have serious problems with the bounces again due to the fall of the floor in the straights, something that also bothered the team in Monaco. Shovlin admitted that a solution to the Mercedes races in Baku far exceeds improvement. “We have a bit of work to do to find time in the lap and long run. night, “he said. “Our speed on the straight is also not great, but some of it will be due to the fact that we are hitting the ground on the straight. We have some new parts in the car today, so we will look into whether these have contributed to our problems. “Overall, we are not in a good position and we need to look for some fundamental improvements instead of a case of refinement.” George Russell, Mercedes W13 Photo: Carl Bingham / Motorsport Images Hamilton said the dramatic bounce, which also affected other teams, including Ferrari at the top of the charts, was the toughest on Friday. “The hardest thing about today was the bounce, it hurts a little bit,” Hamilton explained. “We hit serious speeds at the end of the straight and reach the bottom. We face the same problems as in the last race. “We tried something experimental on my car in the second session, it was not great, but at least we tried it and we had some useful data. We will probably go back to the original setting tomorrow. “I can not tell you a specific area that costs us 1.3 or 1.6 seconds ahead, many of them seem to be straight, but we have to put our heads down tonight and find solutions.”
Russell: We need talks with F1 on bounce issues
Russell believes that the scale of F1 problems in different teams, eight games in the 2022 season, suggests that the sport needs to look at a long-term solution. “Now with cars running so close to the ground, at high speeds, cars fall to the bottom and it’s the same for everyone, it’s not really comfortable to drive,” Russell added. “I do not know what the future holds for this era of cars, but I can not see us running like this for the next four years, so we will all need discussions as we are all on the same boat.” Read also:
