George Russell has disagreed with Lewis Hamilton’s claim that Mercedes should have listened to his feedback when designing the W14 car, insisting that drivers do not have much of a say in the way they are built.
The 25-year-old responded after Hamilton’s criticism of the team earlier this year, saying: “Every single race and every time we drive on track, we’re giving our feedback on what we need from the car and what needs to be improved,” he said via Motorsport Week.
“And we’ll go back – every driver does more or less on the simulator, and that is a really useful tool to develop these cars. I’m trying to put as much effort as possible on the sim to help in that regard.
“But at the end of the day, it comes down to the bright and intelligent designers and engineers to deliver the goods with the direction that between Lewis and I, and the main engineers, have set out and what we need to deliver.”
