The 'mind-blowing' vortices at play underneath current F1 cars explain why Mercedes' recovery will take time, according to Hamilton.
revamped its troublesome W14 from the Monaco Grand Prix, revising the floor, front suspension and sidepods in a bid to turn around its campaign and close the gap on Red Bull.are well aware that more is needed before the team can hope to challenge for race wins on pure pace.
Asked about why it was taking so long for Mercedes to unlock the downforce gains that it needs to close that gap to Red Bull, Hamilton explained that there were some extremely complex airflows at play that the team needed time to understand. "There's simulations with the new rules that we have, and all the new tools we have had to create and understand the flow structures underneath the car.
"If you go full steam ahead in one direction, you could lose weeks of development and it could be tenths of performance, so you have to have to be very methodical in the way they go through that process. I wish it was faster but unfortunately, it is not."
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