{"id":4915,"date":"2018-06-13T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2018-06-14T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T07:00:53","slug":"mercedes-amg-f1-debrief-of-the-canadian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/06\/13\/mercedes-amg-f1-debrief-of-the-canadian-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes AMG F1 Debrief of the Canadian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mercedes AMG F1<\/strong> team did not have the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/06\/10\/sebastian-vettel-wins-in-canada-and-takes-championship-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Canadian GP<\/strong><\/a> everyone expected. The Silver Arrows has been dominant at this track in the Hybrid-engine era. The only blip came in 2014 when the relibaility issues of both Mercedes drivers handed the race win to Red Bull Racing&#8217;s <strong>Daniel Ricciardo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valtteri Bottas<\/strong> in second place and <strong>Lewis Hamilton<\/strong> in fifth place was the result the team left Canada with.\u00a0 Hamilton lost his lead in the drivers&#8217; championship to <strong>Sebastian Vettel<\/strong>. Mercedes&#8217; lead in the constructors&#8217; championship to <strong>Ferrari<\/strong> was cut to 17 points.<\/p>\n<h1>Mercedes AMG F1 Debrief of the Canadian GP<\/h1>\n<p><strong>James Vowles<\/strong>, Mercedes Chief Strategist, debriefs the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/06\/10\/canadian-gp-what-lies-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Canadian GP<\/strong><\/a> and explains the pitstop strategy and the reasons for it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2018 Canadian Grand Prix F1 Debrief\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vFON1QufTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Mercedes Had a Less Than Ideal Race<\/h2>\n<p>Mercedes drivers had to use the first engine of the 2018 season for the seventh race at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/06\/07\/canadiangp-preview-history-stats-circuitguide\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve<\/strong><\/a>. At this power track, all the other engine manufacturers brought updated new specification engines. But both Mercedes drivers were hampered by using the old engine with the mileage of six races on it. This probably cost Bottas pole position.<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Arrows has not performed well on the new softest compound Pirelli tyre &#8211; the hypersofts. This was the fastest tyre and the tyre of choice of the other teams. As the Mercedes drivers had only 5 sets of these tyres, they had to save the tyres for qualification. So the drivers were hampered further without sufficient practice on these tyres in the free practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>During the race Hamilton who qualified fourth had to fall back to fifth as he dealt with engine heating issues in the race. Bottas managed to stay ahead of Verstappen to take second even as he was in fuel saving mode in the last laps.<\/p>\n<h2>Toto Wolff Was Not Happy<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Toto Wolff<\/strong>, Mercedes boss, was not happy with the performance of his team in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff said: <em>\u201cI\u2019m the opposite of confident. I think this is &#8211; we\u2019ve had it in the past &#8211; a major wake up call for every single member of the team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEverybody needs to assess how to improve performance in order to <\/em>optimise<em> on those marginal <\/em>gains,<em> because those marginal gains are going to make all the difference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe were coming to Montreal expecting our car to be really strong and we\u2019re leaving Montreal seeing we haven\u2019t been where we thought we should be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is not the historic pattern of cars strong on certain circuits and weak on others. I still think we\u2019re not pretty good in Monaco and Singapore. They are the outliers, but you have to expect everyone to be strong everywhere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>French Grand Prix Next<\/h2>\n<p>The French GP returns to the F1 calendar this year. The next race at this track with long straights is also a track that will suit Mercedes. They will be hoping to return to form there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes AMG F1 team did not have the 2018 Canadian GP everyone expected. The Silver Arrows has been dominant at this track in the Hybrid-engine era. The only blip came in 2014 when the relibaility issues of both Mercedes drivers handed the race win to Red Bull Racing&#8217;s Daniel Ricciardo. Valtteri Bottas in second place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1477,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"431","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[608,68,76,121,225],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-2018-formula-1-season","tag-f1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes","tag-valtteri-bottas"],"modified_by":"Sudha Sundar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}