Motorsport.’s publication of the pictures it turns out that Lewis Hamilton was forced to drive to Melbourne to race to the end of the damaged base plate.Jyrki lake grove gutted Valtteri bottas of overwhelming victory.
winning the Australian F1 grand prix of the show style. Even the reigning world champion, team mate Lewis Hamilton , not go back to the superior Finnish ride.
Bottas, of course drove a virtually perfect race. But would she have been as superior, if hamilton’s car would have been intact? Motorsport.’s release the most recent pictures of namely show that Hamilton had to endure for the rest of the race with a damaged car.
Hamilton was wondering during the race why his car felt unbalanced. The reason became clear after the race. Hamilton’s base plate came off during the race a piece, which was located in the left rear wheel on the front. Even though the part is comparatively small, it plays an important role without guidance in and through the diffuser in action.
Unbalanced driving feel is easy to understand, because the left side of the air flow is a part of remove to be inevitably totally different than the right. Hamilton himself believed that the piece falls roughly in the fourth round. At that time, he began to constantly stay bottas a waterfront lot of lap time.
Motorsport.’s according to Hamilton believes he lost the bottom plate part of it, that he may run Robert Kubican etusiivestä loosened stuff over.
Bottas beat Hamilton by almost 21 seconds and clocked in addition to the race’s fastest lap. The difference would probably be smaller, if Hamilton had run completely intact on the flow of the game.
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas sealed the Mercedes double-winning first season in the first race. EPA / AOPLewis Hamilton had to drive almost the whole race with a damaged base plate strain by. EPA / AOP
