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Mercedes: Current generation F1 cars ‘not suiting’ Hamilton’s style
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20/07/2024 at 10:4620/07/2024 at 10:48 Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin believes that Lewis Hamilton’s struggles in qualifying in recent years are rooted in F1’s current generation of ground-effect cars that are “not suiting his style”. Despite holding the record for the most pole positions in F1 with 104, Hamilton has managed to top qualifying only once since the introduction of the new cars in 2022. This season, the seven-time world champion finds himself trailing his Mercedes teammate George Russell 10-2 in the Saturday afternoon single-lap exercise. “George has always set a very high bar in qualifying,” Shovlin explained....
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