Bojan Vrbnjak
Mercedes is in the whole hybrid period Formula 1 is the predominant force as they are between the years 2014 in 2021 won eight times in a row construction title and seven times racing. This year, in the age of new race cars, they are just that a shadow of former glory.
During winter testing before the season, it is Mercedes already showing signs of weakness, but no one wanted to write off the world of Formula 1 silver arrows. Mercedes often starts pre-season testing slightly slower, intentionally or not. After four races of the 2022 season, we can say that it is Mercedes in trouble and that they are right great happiness led to two podium finishes. And on Friday it is in Imoli past period 187 racing weekends - since Japan in 2012 - when the Mercedes team failed to advance to the last part of qualifying (Q3).
Jacques Villeneuve in his column on Formula1.co.uk he says he is Mercedes hard to have in your ranks such a great star as he is Hamilton. The racer did not participate, but the racer also failed to overtake Pierre Gaslya in AlphaTauri, which got stuck for half of the race Alex Albon in Williams. And the Canadian says yes Mercedes with a seven-time world champion on his team a lot of risk. Having such a big star on your team is great if you have a great one too dominant race car, which has been the case in recent years.
On the other hand, if you fails to win, the attention you attract is only more painful. Villeneuve believes that people quickly forget to be a champion he has no right be competitive. Canadian he can’t help but think of the possible early retirement of Hamilton and he is not the only one. Helmut Marko, consultant Red Bull Racing he wondered if Hamilton he may not regret opposing it after last year’s defeat Verstappen decided to pursue a career in Formula 1.
Villeneuve says he was in Formulas 1 often surprised and that he often saw that they were champions suddenly tired of racing. Definitely the champion of the year 1997 it doesn’t seem easy to be former champion currently the team leader Mercedes next to a strong young racer like Russell. The latter certainly marvels at the boss's moves Tota Wolff, who apologized after the race Hamilton za non-driving car, with which he himself achieved excellent fourth place. But they probably existed reasons, as the Austrian may have wanted to preventto have the spoiled Briton publicly slap the team again.
