“Considering where we put the cars altogether, our team was not [in] a good position for today,” the Austrian explained. “Not good enough overall, P6 I think it was and [P9], but it’s lacking pace so we’ve got to dig deep.
“We have something coming for Miami that looks like a good step – let’s see where that brings us out.”
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The Silver Arrows have continued to carry out experiments on the car, with Hamilton embarking on a further one during the weekend in Shanghai. Quizzed on what the team had learned from this – and whether it had proven, after five rounds, that the W15 is a fundamentally okay car – Wolff answered: “No, it’s not an okay car.
“I think we can see what the mistakes were that we did on the car. I think we wanted to go a bit more aggressive to see [if it is] something that is so different that we need to do on the car, and you can see Lewis today took it on him also. That was maybe a step too far.”
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