LONDON—Mercedes will work flat out over Formula One’s April break to give Lewis Hamilton and George Russell a more balanced car, with improved suspension, technical head James Allison said on Thursday.
The sport has a big gap in the calendar, due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix, until racing resumes in Azerbaijan on April 30.
Seven times world champion Hamilton, who gave the team a first podium of the season with second place in Australia on Sunday, has said he does not ‘feel connected’ to the car. Russell has referred to it as a ‘lame horse’.
“We are working as hard as we can in the wind tunnel to find more downforce, we will be working as hard as we can in the drawing office to convert the things that the wind tunnel found a few weeks ago into performance that we deliver to the track,” said Allison in a team debrief….