Toto wolff, team boss Mercedes Benz, is for race in Monza sent the role of favorite to the south. “I don't believe we will find 15 km / h after the race in Spa to Monza. But that’s just the way it is, and I don’t complain about that. We have to prepare as best we can for the race in Monza, knowing that the track does not suit us and favors the Ferrari car more." Excuse me? Doesn't suit us? Looking back at the period hybrid period of Formula 1 since the beginning of 2014, we find that he is in five races won five times Mercedes race car. Lewis Hamilton he won in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018, and in 2016 the race was won by his then teammate Nico Rosberg. After four the best starting places Hamilton (2014 - 2017), succeeded last year Kimi Raikkonen pause for at least a moment silver dominance in King's Park Monza.
But Lewis Hamilton nevertheless he remains skeptical. Before the racing weekend GP of Italy said the current champion: “The Monza is mostly made up of planes, so this weekend will most likely belong to Ferrari. In Spa, we lost a good eight tenths of a second in the qualifiers. There's nothing we can do about Valtteri here. We are too slow on the plains and need dramatic progress. I don’t know exactly how we could do that. But I also know that if anyone can make it, it’s Mercedes."
However, not everything is so bad. Mercedes Benz he is also known for tending to underestimate things. And in Belgium we could see that she was tire wear smaller for silver arrows than for Ferrari. “It will be hard to beat Ferrari in training and qualifying, but we could have better chances in the race.And then what he remembered could happen Valtteri Bottas"This is the only podium on which they have not whistled. So we will try to do it again."
