Ralf Schumacher ‘disappointed’ with F1 group he fears for ahead of 2024 season
Ralf Schumacher is ‘a bit disappointed’ with Mercedes, so fears Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will have another disappointing year amid the 2024 Equation 1 season.
The Silver Bolts cleared out a acrid taste in Schumacher’s mouth with their endeavors through the as it were pre-season test in Bahrain. Mercedes flew to the Center East having revealed a unused concept with the W15. Going winless final year enticed the Brackley group to hatchet their zero-pod thought.
Final year was Mercedes’ to begin with Equation 1 season since 2011 to not highlight a single Amazing Prix victory. Russell at slightest won the Sao Paulo GP in 2022 after the Silver Bolts to begin with investigated a zero-pod concept. But they would not recoup their year after taking the concept into 2023.
George Russell set Mercedes’ speediest lap on day three of F1’s Bahrain test
Mercedes’ to begin with winless season since some time recently he joined in 2013 moreover tempted Hamilton to walk absent and sign for Ferrari. The 39-year-old will switch to Maranello after the 2024 season. He activated an elude clause within the bargain that Hamilton as it were marked in Eminent to stopped Mercedes.
Hamilton accepts after testing their W15 in Bahrain that Mercedes have ‘a much way better car’ to begin the season with. He moreover feels the Silver Bolts have ‘done a extraordinary job’ planning an completely diverse concept. The car is additionally ‘much more pleasant to drive’ than the W14 was.
Russell, in the mean time, set Mercedes’ speediest lap of the pre-season test with a 1:
30.368 on the C4 Pirelli tires. The 26-year-old accomplished his time on the third and last day of the test. The Briton too completed a combined 189 laps over the test, whereas Hamilton completed 172.
Mercedes disclosed an curiously front wing with the W15 for 2024
Mercedes basically centered on racking up the laps amid days one with Russell and two with Hamilton. So, Ruddy Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko proposed after the primary day that the Silver Bolts were ‘certainly’ covering up their genuine pace during Equation 1’s as it were winter test.
But Mercedes cleared out previous Jordan, Williams and Toyota driver Schumacher ‘disappointed’ in Bahrain. Indeed on the off chance that Red Bull specialized director Pierre Wache finds Mercedes’ car for the 2024 Equation 1 season ‘surprising’. Wache finds the W15’s front wing plan ‘very interesting’.
“I’m a bit disillusioned with Mercedes,” Schumacher told Sky Germany “I have the feeling that things will proceed like final year. That seem too be a reason why Lewis Hamilton misplaced confidence in it, and followed Fred Vasseur’s call.”
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