Two-time world champion Mike Hakkinen feels Mercedes already look to be out of the title picture this season. ‘Mercedes clearly has quite complex problems with their car,’ he wrote in his Unibet column. ‘To see Lewis Hamilton being lapped by Max Verstappen after 41 laps shows what a difficult time he and the team are having.’. He continued: ‘They understand the key problems, but time is running out to find solutions. ‘This is the problem in F1 – the World Championship does not wait for you, the races keep coming and there is so little time to sort major problems out.

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