In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton if hopeful Mercedes will fix its bouncing problems before it affects his desire to continue racing in Formula 1.
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In brief
Hamilton doubts porpoising will affects his F1 future
Hamilton does not expect Mercedes’ current problems with violent bouncing to be a factor in whether he wants to continue driving.
Speaking at the Canadian Grand Prix Hamilton, whose current Mercedes contract expires after the 2023 season, said “I imagine we’re going to get this fixed. We’re going to get this fixed by the end of next year at least.
“So, hopefully that’s not going to be something to stop me racing for longer, but time will tell.”
Alpine have taken “two or three steps backwards” – Alonso
Fernando Alonso feels Alpine have gone down the order in recent races, compared to early form.
“I think right now we are struggling a little bit more than at the beginning of the year, when I think we were top five or six initially,” said Alonso. “Then as Mercedes fixed some of their problems, I think we were in the fight with them and now we seem two or three steps backwards compared to Australia or Jeddah.”
Speaking before practice began, Alonso said he was optimistic about Alpine’s form in Montreal. “There are some new parts again this weekend to fine-tune the car for this track because we were very fast on the straight in Baku, the car seems to like the medium-speed circuits and Canada is one of those.”
Ferrari unreliability “a bump in the road” says Sainz
Carlos Sainz has said Ferrari’s reliability problems do not worry him compared to the team’s progress, after both the team’s cars retired from the last race.
“We are still motivated, we are united,” he said. “We are going through a bump in the road, which I think after this step that we’ve done in the end of this year, I would much rather take this step and then take a bump in the road and have a powerful engine that is reliable.
“As a team we’ve done a great job with this year’s engine and it’s just we’re just going through some issues that are going to be solved, I’m sure.”
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