{"id":4184,"date":"2023-03-06T16:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/29785-hamilton-enjoyed-race-but-mercedes-has-declined-in-hierarchy"},"modified":"2023-03-06T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:15:03","slug":"29785-hamilton-enjoyed-race-but-mercedes-has-declined-in-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/29785-hamilton-enjoyed-race-but-mercedes-has-declined-in-hierarchy","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton enjoyed the race, but Mercedes has declined in the hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boss of the Silver Arrows F1 team, Toto Wolff, stated that, after disappointing qualifications, Mercedes would completely review the design of the W14.<\/p>\n<p>A half-second delay on Saturday&#8217;s pole position and on Sunday, the driver of car number 44, Lewis Hamilton, finished in fifth place <a href=\"\/f1\/actualite\/29777-un-premier-relais-soutenu-verstappen-na-eu-qua-gerer-gommes-gagner.html\" title=\"A strong first stint and Verstappen only had to manage his tires to win\">over 50 seconds behind Max Verstappen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The British didn&#8217;t fail to point out that the Mercedes simply wasn&#8217;t fast enough to compete with the best during this first race.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab I sincerely enjoyed the race. <b>I had a good start, I had Fernando in turn 4<\/b> and I thought to myself &#8216;Oh wow, this is a great start to the race.&#8217; It was one of the best starts I&#8217;ve ever had \u00bb, comments Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I just kept sliding. I had so many understeers at the beginning, I thought I had lost my front wing, I couldn&#8217;t take certain turns, and I couldn&#8217;t keep up with the guys in front.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab My middle stint was good and in the end, I was <b>so close to catching up to Carlos<\/b> [Sainz for fourth position], but [it was] not good enough. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton was nevertheless able to close the gap on Carlos Sainz towards the end of the race. However, this scenario does not reassure him about Mercedes&#8217; chances of performing well this season.<\/p>\n<p>We definitely can&#8217;t compete with them at the moment &#8211; they were much faster than us, just like the Astons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab We are now the fourth fastest team, whereas we were third last year. <b>We are falling back<\/b>, [so] we really have a lot of work to do to close this gap. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finishing fifth in the Season 2023 Grand Opening Prix, the seven-time world champion had fun, but he noticed that Mercedes has declined in the hierarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":33980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[473,841,964],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-grand-prix-de-bahrein","tag-hamilton","tag-mercedes-amg-f1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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