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Lewis Hamilton has detailed the problems Mercedes is facing with their car and the areas where Mercedes has got “a lot of work to try and catch up on”.
Mercedes managed to minimize the damage at the Bahrain Grand Prix by scoring a surprise podium following the retirement of both Red Bulls.
After the race Lewis Hamilton said the result was not expected.
“Oh for sure, we definitely wouldn’t have expected it,” the Briton told Sky Sports F1.
“I woke up this morning hoping we would have a chance to fight, have a car that’s better than we think maybe, or something like that.
“We did struggle in the race, but George did a great job. To get a third and a fourth I think is pretty remarkable given the problems we have.”
Lewis then went on to detail the problems Mercedes is facing with their car.
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“The thing is with our car, we have a car that’s bouncing a lot everywhere. It’s not just in a straight line, and we have [a] very poor rear end through all the lower-speed corners and all the medium-speed corners.
“The only place it’s generally quite good is in relatively high [speed], and then we are very slow in a straight line.
“I don’t know if it’s drag or power, we haven’t figured that out yet, but the others we can’t keep up with – even with DRS.
“So we have a lot of work, and what that means is you are just sliding a lot on the rear, then the tyres just get hotter and hotter and degrade.
“So that’s where we’ve got a lot of work to try and catch up on,” concluded Hamilton.
