Red Bull and Ferrari expect Mercedes to overcome their issues, with Ferrari saying “the next race will be a different story in Jeddah, with a different tarmac”.
Mercedes had a difficult weekend in Bahrain, but while some fans seem eager to ‘abandon ship’, this situation will only make the team even more determined.
Marko suggests that a car concept change could take Mercedes over the budget cap, but Toto says it’s not a problem because they’d be developing only one car, but adds: “The only question is which car?”
Lewis says he told Mercedes what the W13’s issues were, and now “it’s about owning up and saying ‘yeah, you know what, we didn’t listen to you, it’s not where it needs to be and we’ve got to work’”.
Alonso says “it’s never the same when you fight against Lewis, one of the legends of our sport, and you know he can do something unexpected and use his talent”.
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