Hamilton: Mercedes up to 1.5s per lap slower than Red Bull in F1 race trim

Mercedes endured a torrid 2022 campaign with a car that was crippled by porpoising, but it was confident it would be able to unearth much more potential from an evolution of the same concept.

But with the dreaded bouncing all but gone, Mercedes found out in Bahrain's season opener that it had made nowhere near the amount of progress that it had hoped.