Hamilton was disqualified from second place at last weekend’s race on the Circuit of the Americas after post-race inspections discovered it had worn greater than the 1mm that’s allowed within the rules.
The workforce was open that it had made an error in working Hamilton too low to the bottom, with the bumpy observe subsequently inflicting an excessive amount of put on.
Reflecting on the error that was made, technical director James Allison has mentioned the squad didn’t go away sufficient margin for error after feeling that issues had been underneath management after the primary and solely free observe session.
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For its preliminary evaluation of the plank after observe, the one working groups had earlier than committing to set-up as a result of parc ferme circumstances, it confirmed the plank was not being broken by the bumps and kerbs.
Talking in Mercedes’ common post-race video assessment, Allison mentioned: “Austin is a observe with a really bumpy floor and subsequently you’re a bit extra weak to bumping the automobile on the bottom. We simply merely didn’t take sufficient margin on the finish of free observe 1.
“Once we had performed our set-up, we checked the plank and all the pieces all seemed superb, untouched after the FP1 working. However the outcomes of the race communicate for themselves.
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Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W14
“We had been unlawful, so clearly, we should always have had our automobile set just a little bit larger as much as give ourselves just a little bit extra margin. It is in fact a mistake, it is an comprehensible kind of mistake in a dash weekend the place it is a lot more durable to get that stuff proper, particularly on a bumpy observe.
“However a lesson for us sooner or later to be sure that we take extra margin particularly at a observe like that with all its bumps.”
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However whereas Allison admitted that the squad was nearly “embarrassed” to have fallen foul of a guidelines transgression, he mentioned the workforce had taken positives from the general efficiency of the upgraded W14.
“In fact, the disqualification is a big blow,” he mentioned. “It’s a depressing feeling. It hurts and all people right here feels it.
“All people is upset, embarrassed to a level as nicely as a result of we completely don’t like being on the fallacious aspect of the principles and simply lamenting the misplaced factors.
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Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG, 2nd place, arrives in Parc Ferme after the Dash
“Give it a day or two and that can begin to wane and get replaced by the a lot happier feeling, which is we moved our automobile ahead this weekend and that’s laborious to do.
“However we did it and we did it by an honest quantity. And with 4 races left within the championship, 4 races the place I’m positive we are going to keep on the appropriate aspect of the skid block guidelines.
“The preliminary feeling [of] harm, disappointment and frustration will cross to get replaced by the sunny optimism of figuring out that the automobile seemed shiny on this improve package deal, and we’ve acquired 4 extra races to point out what we will do with it.”
