Hamilton’s disqualification was blamed on Mercedes’ disastrous performance

Sky Sports F1 boss Naomi Schiff has suggested Lewis Hamilton’s exclusion from the US Grand Prix may have been the reason for the team’s poor showing at the Brazilian Grand Prix last weekend.
Hamilton and teammate George Russell endured a weekend full of disappointments, with the car clearly not up to scratch, especially given how competitive they were in the races leading up to Brazil.
Russell had to retire the machine from 11th place with a power plant problem, ending the weekend with a qualifying penalty.
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Hamilton was able to finish eighth, but appeared to be a sitting duck for the midfield cars, including the AlphaTauri and Alpine in both the sprint and feature races. It was a huge surprise for the team, who had emerged as Red Bulland’s main challengers in recent races, and Toto Wolf described it as their worst performance in 13 years. and#039;

Did Mercedes complain about dropping Hamilton and number 039 in Brazil

Schiff now speculated that the lack of performance in Brazil may have been due to changes made to the car following Hamilton’s #039 damper suspension in Austin.
Both he and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc were penalized for excessive sliding after that race for driving too low to the ground during the race.
“Coming back to Austin, Lewis was on the podium, so was the Ferrari, and after inspection they realized the car was too low,” Schiff told Sky Sports’ F1 podcast.
andquot;And now we all had a question mark over the weekend, did Mercedes play it safe?
“Are they being a little too careful with their ride height? And do they suffer too much because of it?
“They also had quite a big rear wing on the car, I think to compensate for that a little bit and so they were very exposed even in DRS, that car was very draggy,” he continued.
“I just don’t think they worked in the right window in terms of installation, it didn’t look good there.”