Sky Sports F1 specialist Mark Hughes delves will play a key role in the Spanish Grand Prix into the Mercedes 2022 car enigma. Will Barcelona's weekend convince them to keep their concept or throw it out altogether? Watch the F1 live stream at Formula1online.net.
This weekend's Spanish Grand Prix will be an extremely important event for Mercedes.
Comparison of performance for Mercedes coming with hurdles and difficulties due to recent W13 with the original, F1 car which was been tested here in Spain during the pre-reason will be useless. This makes a lesson to the Mercedes that comparison will likely affect more than just Mercedes use for the upcoming season is also his 2023 racing concept.
The new aerodynamic rules have coincided with a dramatic drop in the competitiveness of the team that won the most titles, with the W13 qualifying no better than fifth (Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain and Melbourne) and averaging 0.8 seconds from pole position
Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton | George Russell |
Bahrain | 5th | 9th |
Saudi Arabia | 16th | 6th |
Australia | 5th | 6th |
Emilia Romagna | 13th | 11th |
Miami | 6th | 12th |