Lewis Hamilton explains why he decided to run Mercedes’ latest upgrade package in Mexico, despite the difficulties the team faced at the United States Grand Prix.
At the United States Grand Prix, Mercedes introduced its last big upgrade package of the 2024 season, however everything did not go according to plan, as both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell spun out at certain points.
Despite this, Lewis confirmed he decided to run the upgrades in Mexico.
“We can see in the data that we have three wheeling, so the left wheel starts moving,” the Briton explained.
“The car is jacking, basically. We can see on the rear, the right height oscillating a lot, so 12 to 15mm difference going into the corner. And you can see a 40 kilometre [per hour] tail wind.
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“So you can imagine, there’s a small window where the downforce is perfect, and then it gets too high. Then you fall off the peak, so I think it was a combination of all those things.
“If you watch the video, the car is bouncing, the left wheel starts bouncing, and then I think we just lose load, and I think the floor is probably a little bit more sensitive maybe than the previous floor.
“But I’ve kept it on this weekend because it’s a much less bouncy circuit, and it’s good because we need to get more data on it,” Hamilton concluded.