News Details

Hamilton admits Mercedes struggling with power-reliability balance

Lewis Hamilton knows Mercedes face a difficult task in trying to squeeze as much power as possible out of their engine while maintaining reliability, but has faith in his engineers to rectify any issues before the Australian Grand Prix. The new Mercedes W11 car displayed moments of extreme pace in testing, but over the course of the sessions in Barcelona the team were confronted by reliability issues, with both Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas having to retire due to engine failures. Article continues under video Williams, who use Mercedes engines, also faced similar problems and had to use three separate power units. Hamilton reckons the issues are coming from the quest to be the fastest, but...
Full Story »
4y ago from GPFans.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Hamilton admits Mercedes' poor reliability ‘a...

Lewis Hamilton says there is some concern over Mercedes' reliability...
4y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

It's 'not ideal' says Hamilton after Mercedes hit...

Lewis Hamilton completed only 14-laps of running on the penultimate day...
4y ago from GPFans.com

Red Bull lifted by Honda's test reliability

Christian Horner reckons Honda's reliability is 'very encouraging' after...
4y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Mercedes say reliability 'is a concern for sure'

Lewis Hamilton says that the Mercedes unreliability is a concern to the...
4y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Chip Ganassi Racing announces driver development...

Chip Ganassi Racing has launched a new driver development program, which...

Robert Shwartzman announced for PREMA’s second...

PREMA has announced that Robert Shwartzman will pilot one of the two cars...

Enzo Fittipaldi to run IndyCar test with McLaren later...

Arrow McLaren has announced that it will place Enzo Fittipaldi in one of...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal column: Chelsea reaction, Pedro Neto transfer...

Arsenal need to improve but title race isn’t over just yet… It’s...
7h ago from CaughtOffside.com

MOTD to lose second key man in two years with £1.3m...

Gary Lineker is set to leave the BBC's iconic show Match of the Day at the...
9h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Mikel Merino insists Arsenal will thrive on pressure...

t;li>Gunners trail leaders Liverpool by nine pointsMerino: ‘The...
7h ago from TheGuardian.com

Chelsea, Arsenal duo among eight England withdrawals...

Arsenal and Manchester City stars are among eight players to pull out of...
9h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.