Formula 1 powerhouse Mercedes has posted an open letter to its fans after a sorry start to the 2023 campaign at last weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Silver Arrows failed to inspire hope at Sakhir after Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished fifth and seventh in the season-opener, respectively. That followed a disappointing pre-season in which the new W14 car struggled to match the speed of its F1 peers.
The team's woes worsened when Hamilton publicly aired some in-house grievances, criticising Mercedes' engineers for not listening to his critiques about last year's design. He told the BBC ’s Chequered Flag podcast he 'knows what a car needs' and said the team missed the mark with the 2022 car and "haven’t got it right this time."
