“We are running out of battery power”: Hamilton worried at home GP

The length of one lap is 5.891 kilometers. Long straights like the “Wellington Straight” or the “Hangar Straight”, coupled with fast corner combinations like “Maggotts-Becketts-Chapel”, will offer the drivers few chances to recharge their cars’ batteries.

That’s why he said yesterday, Thursday Ferrari-Star Lewis Hamilton his concerns. “I think this will be the most unpredictable weekend in terms of power delivery (from the electric motor),” said the nine-time Great Britain winner.

However, the Silverstone record winner does not bear these worries alone. “We drivers talked in the group chat about how bad the power delivery will be on this route. We will run out of battery charge,” Hamilton made clear.

“There are only a few corners to charge the engine, so the MGU-K will be switched off for a large part of the lap and that is probably where we will struggle the most. The deficit could be twice as big.”

Verstappen: “Laughed in the simulator”

Also the four-time world champion Max Verstappen Don’t go into the Grand Prix without second thoughts. The Red-Bull-Pilot already did the first training laps in the virtual Formula 1 car and came to an amusing conclusion: “I was sitting in the simulator before the Austrian GP to practice for Silverstone. I love this track, but when I was sitting in the simulator it was just laughable. It felt like a completely different track.”

He agreed with his former World Cup rival (in 2021 there was a highly controversial collision in the Copse curve) that it would be difficult for the pilots in terms of power development due to the electric motor.

“In Silverstone you also have long straights, but then there are fast corners, so you can’t charge the batteries properly, and then on the next straight you don’t have much to use,” said the Dutchman.