Sir Lewis Hamilton might miss the Canadian Grand Prix by means of damage after the seven-time world champion suffered from extreme again ache throughout Sunday’s race in Azerbaijan.
Whereas Hamilton completed a powerful fourth on the Baku Metropolis Circuit, with Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen claiming victory, the Brit stated through the race that his again was in excruciating ache and afterwards the 37-year-old could possibly be seen struggling to climb out of his Mercedes W13.
The 2022 System 1 automobiles have all been affected by ‘porpoising’, the place the automotive bounces uncontrollably, however Hamilton seems to have been affected essentially the most, telling Sky Sports activities after Sunday’s race: ‘I can’t categorical the ache that you simply expertise significantly on the straight right here and on the finish you’re simply praying for it to finish.’
And now, it seems that the difficulty has taken its toll on Hamilton, with Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitting that his driver is ‘undoubtedly’ a doubt for this weekend’s race on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.
‘I haven’t seen him, and I haven’t spoken to him afterwards, however you may see this isn't muscular anymore – it goes correctly deep into the backbone and there are some penalties,’ Wolff stated.
‘At this stage I feel he's perhaps the worst affected of all drivers. However just about everybody, so far as I understood from the drivers, stated one thing must occur.
‘The answer could possibly be to have somebody in reserve, which we anyway have at each race, to ensure our automobiles are operating.’
Wolff had beforehand spoken to Hamilton on the staff radio after the Azerbaijan race to apologise, saying: ‘Lewis, everyone knows it is a little bit of a s**t-box to drive in the mean time. Sorry for the again additionally. We are going to kind ourselves out. Properly pushed.’
It will be an amazing disgrace if Hamilton was to overlook out on the Canadian Grand Prix, given his deep affinity for the venue the place he gained his first F1 race.
As for who might take his place, Mercedes’ two reserve drivers are Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries, who each compete for the Silver Arrows’ System E staff.
Whereas Vandoorne has essentially the most F1 expertise having raced for McLaren from 2016-2018, De Vries could be the extra possible candidate having just lately participated in a follow session on the Spanish Grand Prix for Williams.
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