1 hour ago Hamilton said: "If you look astatine the velocity traces, we commencement losing deployment going into Copse. Normally the motor is screaming going into determination and you are holding connected for beloved life. This twelvemonth astir apt we volition beryllium downshifting from seventh to sixth to support the revs higher. It volition beryllium a agelong consecutive from Nine (Copse) and (to) 10 (Maggotts) with nary deployment.
"Maggots and Becketts volition not consciousness the same, due to the fact that you person to assistance and seashore done determination for a play of time.
"So it's a wholly antithetic track. Maybe we volition inactive get to bask it wherever you're not power-limited, but the champion parts of the way are Copse and Becketts and Stowe and successful those parts the powerfulness is conscionable dropping. Hopefully they tin rectify it for adjacent year."
He added that Ferrari's shortage to Mercedes could beryllium "twice arsenic big" arsenic it was successful the Austrian Grand Prix past play arsenic a effect of the quality of the track.
A fig of drivers made akin comments to Hamilton.
Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso said: "With nary deployment astatine all, we cannot hide that this twelvemonth we person importantly little powerfulness than past twelvemonth and little powerfulness than F2. That is the lawsuit erstwhile you chopped the deployment. So, yeah, (a) challenge."
But Mercedes operator George Russell, the victor successful Austria, said it could person a beneficial effect connected the racing action.
"We cognize we're going to person immoderate tracks wherever the straight-line speeds are going to beryllium acold quicker than past twelvemonth and immoderate tracks are going to beryllium much challenging," Russell said.
"On the flip side, the racing could beryllium rather interesting. And connected those energy-starved tracks truthful far, Melbourne, particularly with racing, was rather exciting.
"And unless you ticker the onboard, I don't deliberation you're going to truly know. You've got 600,000 fans here. I'd astir apt accidental 95% of them wouldn't announcement it. And adjacent hardcore fans from the outside, I don't deliberation you'd truly announcement it. It's conscionable erstwhile you ticker the onboard, you perceive to it, it doesn't dependable great."
Russell said that the occupation was made worse by the determination of governing assemblage the FIA not to let straight-line mode connected the tally from Turn One to Turn Three, and betwixt Copse and Becketts.
This was done for information reasons. The determination could person been reversed astatine a gathering connected Thursday greeting but 5 of the 11 teams voted against.
Russell said: "All the teams had to agree. There were 5 teams against, which I don't truly cognize why. If anything, you'd accidental the Mercedes teams would beryllium against due to the fact that we should person the deployment advantage. But we were successful favour due to the fact that we conscionable deliberation it would beryllium better. And I drove connected the sim (simulator) with and without and it makes a immense difference."
Some teams had concerns astir information astatine circumstantial parts of the way wherever the consecutive mode could person been reinstated, sources person said.
F1 has already taken decisions that volition change the ratio of internal-combustion to electrical power implicit the adjacent 2 seasons to alleviate this issue.
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