

However team principal Mike Krack is wary of drawing hasty conclusions over Mercedes’ performance. Poll: Vote for your 2023 Spanish Grand Prix Driver of the WeekendWhile Red Bull and Mercedes occupied the top four places, the Aston Martin pair came sixth and seventh behind Sainz – their worst result so far this year. “It’s just Merc has suddenly slotted in between us and Red Bull, probably where Aston should have been but I don’t know what happened to Aston today.” “I think our pace, when you look like we finished 45 seconds, it’s more or less where we finished in Miami, where we’ve finished in recent races.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Sainz said Mercedes appeared to have become the closest threat to Red Bull. The Ferrari driver said “the biggest surprise is how close were Mercedes in this race.” Hamilton also overhauled Carlos Sainz Jnr as he moved his way forward. “I was expecting us to be the strongest car after Red Bull, I expected after all the races this year to have pace to do something good today, we just didn’t have it.” “I’m not really sure where they found that pace. “They had a rocket ship today,” Stroll told media including RaceFans at the Circuit de Catalunya. Lance Stroll said he thought his Aston Martin would be the second-quickest car behind the dominant Red Bulls and was surprised how easily Hamilton passed him early in the race. Also, the cars have a revlimiter at 5000rpm and the topspeed, they showed me in the end (it was about 147mph), was far from the speed, i really drove (about 70mph).Lewis Hamilton rose from fourth on the grid to finish second while George Russell completed the team’s first double podium finish of the season having started 12th. I was totally upset, when i got out of the car. After few tracktime, he started screaming at me in a very rude way. Because i had no idea, what he wanted from me, i asked him what i had to do like: should i drive more left? Instead of answering yes or no, he kept giving his weird instructions.

I also taught people how to drive on track myself, so i know, which instructions work and which don't. I was willing to follow his instructions, but from what he was saying, i had no idea what to do. The instructor on the headset kept talking to me uninterruptet. Once on track, it got even a lot more awful. You can't adjust them they just bring you a heap of pillows at the beginning to plug it behind your back. Thought on the homepage, they write about "real nascars".

I guess, it has only about 300 hp (maximum). The car looks like a nascar, but inside there is just a normal engine from a streetcar. First, I was disappointed the moment i saw the engine of the car. I use to race in europe, so i decided to join Mario Andrettis racing experience during my stay in the united states.
