News Details

Mercedes sheds light on Hamilton's Montreal hydraulics scare

Just a couple of hours before Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix it was revealed that Mercedes had been forced to strip down Lewis Hamilton's car that morning following a hydraulics scare. In the latest Pure Pitwall video, trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin, reveals the issue first became apparent after qualifying. 'We had some issues with Lewis's car before the race and this actually became apparent after qualifying,' he says. 'We dropped the floor and noticed there was some oil on the floor, so somewhere there was a leak. We could also see on the data we were losing some hydraulic pressure. 'The issue is that the cars are then in parc ferme overnight,' he continues, 'so we are not...
Full Story »
4y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mercedes: Some promise but also some difficulty

Mercedes report from day one of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, Round 7...
4y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Mercedes: A tricky way to end the race

Mercedes report from the Canadian Grand Prix, Round 7 of the 2019 Formula...
4y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Mercedes in drama with Hamilton car just before...

Mercedes had to reassemble Lewis Hamilton's car shortly before the...
4y ago from GPFans.com

Hamilton fastest in Montreal as Giovinazzi crashes out...

Canadian Grand Prix – Lewis Hamilton was the fastest driver in FP1...
4y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

F1 owner Liberty Media set to finalise purchase of...

Formula 1 owner Liberty Media are in talks to buy Madrid-based company...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Rosenqvist: Confidence within MSR growing with every...

Felix Rosenqvist has started off his time with Meyer Shank Racing on a...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Neuville pips Tänak in Safari opener

FIA World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville took a slender...
13h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Episode 778 – The Preview

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In...
59m ago from Arseblog.com

Barcelona looking to take advantage of 32-year-old...

There was a time in the not too distant past when Barcelona, one of the...
19m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.