Lewis Hamilton has claimed that Mercedes “didn’t pay attention” to his considerations concerning the staff’s new W14 automobile.

Hamilton has now advised that the staff ignored his considerations, calling for “accountability” and a collective effort to resolve their issues.

“Final 12 months, I informed them the problems which can be with the automobile,” Hamilton mentioned to the BBC. “Like, I’ve pushed so many automobiles in my life, so I do know what a automobile wants, I do know what a automobile doesn’t want.

“And I feel it’s actually about accountability, it’s about proudly owning up and saying ‘yeah, you understand what, we didn’t hearken to you, it’s not the place it must be and we’ve set to work’.”

Nico Rosberg insists Mercedes’ automobile idea is “in a river” because the staff reveal they’re set to vary course only one race into the brand new System 1 season.

Mercedes determined to stay with their distinctive ‘no-sidepod’ design this 12 months regardless of a troubled 2022 through which they solely gained a single race and completed third within the Constructors’ Championship.

Nonetheless, after a tough testing interval, the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix noticed Mercedes lose round a second-a-lap in comparison with the victorious Pink Bulls out in entrance, whereas a rejuvenated Aston Martin additionally had extra tempo than Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.

As such, staff boss Toto Wolff says the staff must change their philosophy in the event that they need to be aggressive and Rosberg – who gained his World Championship in 2016 with Mercedes earlier than retiring – has considerations about how shortly Mercedes can reverse their fortunes in an period of cost-cap.

The 2023 price range cap is about at £111m.

Martin Brundle believes the state of affairs at Mercedes is visibly tense after a disappointing begin to the brand new System 1 season in Bahrain.

Having produced a automobile related in design to 2022’s troubled challenger – with a singular “zero-pod” strategy – Toto Wolff admitted that he’s set to ditch this breed of automobile after seeing the roughly second-a-lap deficit to Pink Bull in Sunday’s grand prix.

“It appears to me that Mercedes went the improper means in 2022 and refuse to show round,” Brundle mentioned in his Sky Sports activities column.

“Even Lewis and Toto have been overtly expressing their disappointment at sure factors of the weekend, and usually they solely sing the praises of the groups at Brackley and Brixworth. It should be tense on the staff proper now, the standard is there, it simply wants course and oxygen to calm heads.”

Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he’ll stay in F1 till he has gained an eighth world title.

Tasked with answering a sequence of questions with Sky Sports activities presenter Simon Lazenby, Hamilton was pushed on whether or not he’ll keep within the sport till he has claimed one other World Championship.

A report printed final week by Females in Motorsport revealed girls spoke for simply 1.54 per cent of the run time within the new season of Drive to Survive on Netflix, totalling six minutes and 7 seconds out of greater than six-and-a-half hours. Curious, too, when you think about the emphasis all through System 1 on growing alternatives and visibility for girls, regardless of a lady not competing within the sport since 1976.

But look within the paddock or in your screens and girls are current. Not sufficient but, as Drive to Survive’s insufficient illustration infers, however they’re in attendance. Rachel Brookes, heading into her 12^th 12 months as a reporter and presenter for Sky Sports activities F1, is one such face, refreshingly acquainted for all UK followers of the game.

Swapping duties with Natalie Pinkham and Simon Lazenby, the 48-year-old is a well-respected and trusted voice not only for the viewers at residence, however for the drivers within the paddock too. This 12 months, she will likely be at 19 out of a file 23 races, beginning with Saudi Arabia subsequent week. Talking with ardour a couple of job she adores, Brookes is insistent that F1 is bettering relating to feminine illustration.

“I’ve seen it change – there’s much more girls now working in all sports activities in addition to System 1,” she says.

“It’s been actually constructive. One of many first issues Sky did was ship me out to cowl cricket, they’d by no means had a girls on the boundary edge earlier than doing stay match updates however I cherished it.”

Lance Stroll has detailed his outstanding restoration from harm that noticed the Aston Martin driver defy docs’ predictions and begin the System 1 season in Bahrain.

The extent of his points had not been publicly disclosed, however the 24-year-old has now revealed that docs feared he would miss a major a part of the season.

Unique interview by Kieran Jackson

When Netflix first premiered Drive to Survive in 2019, an try by System 1’s new homeowners Liberty to broaden the game’s murky horizon, the onus was in your Hamiltons, your Vettels and your Verstappens to haul in that untapped viewers. Like every serial drama, you want a protagonist. However there can solely be one star of the present.

Little did individuals assume it’d be Guenther Steiner.

“It’s all concerning the underdog story,” the 57-year-old tells The Impartial, when requested why the Haas-centred episodes have the viewers at peak pleasure upon the discharge of every present. A present, he’s keen so as to add, he doesn’t watch.

McLaren CEO Zak Brown just lately visited Pink Bull’s manufacturing facility in Milton Keynes, as he eyes an engine partnership for 3 years’ time when new F1 rules come into power, with engines modified to supply web zero CO2 emissions.

But Horner insisted such talks are “solely pure” as McLaren plot what avenue to go down subsequent. The Woking-based staff at the moment have their engines equipped by Mercedes.

“I believed he was coming for lunch,” joked Horner about Brown’s go to to Pink Bull HQ.

McLaren’s Lando Norris might already be enthusiastic about a transfer to Ferrari or Pink Bull, Karun Chandhok believes. Norris got here residence final of the seventeenth finishers in Bahrain after pitting six instances throughout the course of an issue-plagued race.

It represented a disappointing begin to the season for the 23-year-old, tipped as a possible future world champion however but to attain a victory within the sport.

Sky Sports activities’ analyst Chandhok thinks that Norris may very well be taking a look at potential locations that will give him a greater likelihood of fulfilling his ambitions.

“ the place they’re [McLaren] at, and we have been speaking earlier than the season of McLaren locking him in and Zak [Brown] doing an incredible job of contracting him [Norris] in for that four-year interval.

“I do marvel, and in the event that they’re good they’d have created some form of exit clauses. For instance, McLaren don’t end within the high 4 of the Constructors’ Championship two years in a row, is there an possibility for Lando to look elsewhere?

“As a result of outdoors of the normal high three groups, you’ve acquired Fernando [Alonso] and Lando who’re your high two drivers on the grid aren’t they? And the actual fact he [Norris] is preventing to even get a automobile into Q3, there’s acquired to be a little bit of frustration there I might think about.”

Nico Rosberg insists Mercedes’ automobile idea is “in a river” because the staff reveal they’re set to vary course only one race into the brand new System 1 season.

Mercedes determined to stay with their distinctive ‘no-sidepod’ design this 12 months regardless of a troubled 2022 through which they solely gained a single race and completed third within the Constructors’ Championship.

Nonetheless, after a tough testing interval, the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix noticed Mercedes lose round a second-a-lap in comparison with the victorious Pink Bulls out in entrance, whereas a rejuvenated Aston Martin additionally had extra tempo than Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.

As such, staff boss Toto Wolff says the staff must change their philosophy in the event that they need to be aggressive and Rosberg – who gained his World Championship in 2016 with Mercedes earlier than retiring – has considerations about how shortly Mercedes can reverse their fortunes in an period of cost-cap.

The 2023 price range cap is about at £111m.