Mercedes has the most successful driver in F1 history but Lewis Hamilton says it's not listening to his car development requests, writes Mark Hughes. Can the team deliver a machine that allows him to fully exploit his ability?
Lewis Hamilton finished 50 seconds behind a cruising Max Verstappen in Bahrain last week. Straight out of the car afterwards, as the new Mercedes' scale of deficit had been laid bare, he wasn't holding back as he was interviewed by the BBC.
You could hear long months of frustration being released, as he finally vented: "Last year, there were things I told them, I said the issues that are with the car – like, I've driven so many cars in my life, I know what a car needs, I know what a car doesn't need. And I think it's really about accountability. It's about owning up and saying, 'Yeah, you know what, we didn't listen to you, it's not where it needs to be,' and we've got to work, we've got to look into the balance through the corners, look at all the weak points and just huddle up as a team…"
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