F1 Hamilton: ” The Ferrari is scary, we are not the ones to beat ” – The Republic

STUTTGART – “Ferrari is terribly close to us,” says Lewis Hamilton. “We can not say whether we are ahead or behind the Red, we have worked well, but from what we have seen we can not say yet be the ones to beat,” he says Nico Rosberg. There’s a ghost who wanders in the “Sala Sacra” of Mercedes in Stuttgart, where under the guise of the beginning of the motorsport season (in a week you turn on the F1 engines in Melbourne), the Mercedes gathered here to celebrate itself and its strategic superpower era of hybrid engines. And that fanstama is all red.

A bit ‘for the slight hypocrisy of the sport that always requires to flaunt respect – if not fear – for opponents, a little’ because it really is the Ferrari was the team – Mercedes apart – he has impressed the most during the two test sessions in Barcelona, ​​the talk this morning always end up talking about Maranello. To understand the strange eve of this world we must indeed go back to what happened in Spain, earlier this month. While the Mercedes grinding his now stranota marathon to fully test the reliability (key element of the next season) of its power unit, Ferrari has scored a couple of laps that made me shudder to bigwigs in Stuttgart. Lewis tells it: “During their long runs we noticed that there were some very interesting times. Last year they approached a lot, and now the impression is that they have done over the winter a significant advance in the development of car. “

The more worried – if today an F1 driver that driving a Mercedes can be defined concerned – seems to be Nico Rosberg. In the days after the tests had declared, surprising a bit ‘all, the engineers of Mercedes were aware of how much fuel had Ferrari in the tanks while shooting at Montmelo (the amount of gasoline is the great enigma of each test) and therefore they knew exactly what those benefits are capable of Maranello. “And now – he concluded – we are not able to say who between us and them is in front.” The impression that this is pre-tactics is strong, though certainly the reasoning seems to have some truth. He saw that Nico has bothered to replicate it this morning, before the boss of the three-pointed star. “They are strong, it will be hard this year.”

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formula one

F1

Mercedes

Ferrari

Starring:

lewis hamilton

nico rosberg