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Mercedes doing ‘a lot of work’ to beat Ferrari at F1 starts
Mercedes Formula 1 trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin says the team is doing “a lot of work” on race starts at its factory to match rivals Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton had a sluggish getaway from pole in the British Grand Prix and lost positions to Sebastian Vettel and teammate Valtteri Bottas, before being turned around by Kimi Raikkonen after the pair made contact at Turn 3. Ferrari has often made much better getaways off the line compared to Mercedes this season, particularly in France where Vettel challenged Bottas before the duo collided, and again in Austria where Raikkonen squeezed himself in-between Hamilton and Bottas on the run to Turn 1. 5774263478001...
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