j_ste wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:27 am
mendis wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:20 am
While George is being bashed, by saying Lewis outperformed him, a crucial fact gets neglected. A full blown upgrade package was built to make Lewis comfortable with the car, as Shovlin himself said. After that upgrade, George was on the backfoot as it didn't go in his direction of liking the car's feel. He took time to adapt again.
An update package that largely didnt achieve what Lewis wanted it to. They were always compromised by the chassis they started the season with...the general issue of Lewis struugling with the rear of the car, has been constant from day one to day yesterday.
I remember at the time (Monaco), and you can flip back several pages in the thread to see it, but any time anyone dared to suggest that the upgrades were not amazing, there was a lot of push back by some here. Any post that wasn't positive was being reported to the moderators. Of course now many have given up on that and are calling it what it is. "Good riddance to the W14". It is at least refreshing to see some acknowledgment of the upgrades seemingly not giving all that was expected and the Mercedes upgrades were numerous. They were one of the teams with the most upgrades according to the tracking information that is shared here so it is perplexing.
Hamilton was having a nightmare with the car this weekend and at the end of the day, the car needs to work for him and Mercedes will keep throwing the kitchen sink at it until it does, regardless of how Russell is doing. Hamilton's 8th is what makes the numbers.
In the end, Hamilton and Toto were completely drained of the PR spins and couldn't be bothered to sugarcoat it anymore. Just like Hamilton said, this has to be the most amazing winter that Mercedes has ever had in their history if they hope to challenge for the title next season.
A lion must kill its prey.