Mercedes have explained how they were able to repair Lewis Hamilton’s car in just three and a half hours after his crash in F1 qualifying for the AustrianGP
“There is a huge amount of work that went into getting those cars ready and in Lewis's case he had done so much damage to the chassis, actually only cosmetic damage, but damage that we couldn’t fix in the field. We had to sort of build his car from scratch on Saturday morning,” he said.
“So, that car had to be built from nothing, fitting the engine, the gearbox, all the suspension, all of the sort of car systems that bolt around the chassis, all had to be put in place and the mechanics managed to do that in three and a half hours on Saturday morning, which is an amazing achievement, and all credit to them for actually getting us back out and into FP2.
“And the advantage of getting out into FP2 is that you can actually make sure that the set-up on Lewis's car was right, that the balance was right and that he was happy with the car in time for [the] Sprint.”Despite a disappointing qualifying, both Hamilton and Russell hit back on race day to secure third and fourth.
It was Hamilton’s third consecutive podium of the year, while Russell recovered from a Lap 1 tangle with
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