{"id":293705,"date":"2023-11-11T22:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=293705"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:56:01","slug":"lewis-hamilton-changing-tune-with-mercedes-engineers-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/racing\/f1\/lewis-hamilton-changing-tune-with-mercedes-engineers-speaks-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton changing tune with Mercedes engineers speaks volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lewis Hamilton’s change in comments regarding\u00a0Mercedes’ engineers speaks volumes about how\u00a0he has slowly been ground down by the Silver Arrows’ current situation and the struggling W14. At the start of the season, the seven-time F1 champion\u00a0demanded the team \u201cown up\u201d and admit their concept was wrong after failing to take his advice on the car.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC\u2019s Chequered Flag podcast back in March: \u201cLast year, I told them the issues that are with the car. Like, I\u2019ve driven so many cars in my life, so I know what a car needs, I know what a car doesn\u2019t need. And I think it\u2019s really about accountability, it\u2019s about owning up and saying \u2018yeah, you know what, we didn\u2019t listen to you, it\u2019s not where it needs to be and we\u2019ve got to work\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to look into the balance through the corners, look at all the weak points and just huddle up as a team, that\u2019s what we do.\u00a0We\u2019re still multi-World Champions you know, it\u2019s just they haven\u2019t got it right this time, they didn\u2019t get it right last year, but that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t get it right moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flash forward eight months and Hamilton is singing from a different hymn sheet. After a dismal performance at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday that saw Hamilton place eighth, the Brit thanked his team for their hard work over the weekend and insisted that they could leave Sao Paulo with their “heads held high”.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to Sky Sports F1, he said: “One thing the car is really unpredictable. In a sense of one weekend it feels good, one session it feels good, and then not.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure we will go and look at things and find things we should have done differently but with the one [practice] session it’s difficult.<\/p>\n

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