At the ninth race of the season, in what – for the results he has achieved in his career – can almost be considered his second home track, Lewis Hamilton he finally managed to get back on the podium. After the third place in Bahrain, the seven-time world champion was never able to get into the top-3 again, a feat that his team-mate George Russell succeeded on three occasions. In Canada this negative streak was finally broken, thanks to an ‘old-fashioned’ weekend in # 44, finally effective both in qualifying and in the race. It is no coincidence that at the end of the day, speaking at the press conference, Hamilton appeared in a good mood as he had never seen during this season. The Englishman particularly wanted to give credit to the work done on reliability of the W13 by the men and women of Brixworth and Brackley. While Ferrari and Red Bull continue to collect technical knockouts in alternating races, in fact, Mercedes has always brought both cars under the checkered flag.
Of course, there is a lack of speed, which is no small detail, but Hamilton finally seems to see something good in the work done by Mercedes in this 2022: “Friday I was not lost – he declared, referring to the difficulties encountered during free practice – it’s just that we tried two different paths and the one I was taking was bad. When you run an entire race, on the other hand, you discover many things about the car and the relationship you have with it, the data, and so on. Therefore, there is a lot of good to be taken in this case. A really good thing is that we have very good reliability. This is due to the excellent work done by all the teams in both factories“. The next GP for Hamilton will really be the homecoming one, a Silverstone. The idol of the British public would aspire to replicate the result of Montreal, but the unknown factor for Mercedes is always the same: the management of the porpoising.
In Canada the rebounds have not proved to be a serious problem, but it is not obvious that on the fast curves of the former military airport the performance is the same. Precisely with regard to the thorny problem of hopping Hamilton has also allowed himself the space of a joke. The Englishman, in fact, who was in the press room with Max Verstappen it’s at Carlos Sainz, highlighted the differences between Red Bull and Ferrari precisely in terms of porpoising. The red, in fact, while managing to ‘coexist’ well with the rebounds is still afflicted by them. The RB18, on the other hand, does not seem to have any problems from this point of view. “Silverstone? We are probably better in medium and high speed corners than low speed ones – said The Hammer – but there is porpoising and I don’t know what it will be like to face Copse and all those curves. Max doesn’t know what I’m talking about, but Carlos knows what I’m saying. It will be interesting to see how we manage there“.
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