Valtteri Bottas has said he and Lewis Hamilton were both sometimes overruled when deciding how they wanted their cars to be set up, as the computer simulations at Mercedes found there to be time improvements based on the data they had.
The Finn believes it was the correct thing to have had computers lead the way when setting up the cars on some occasions, but not every time for how he wanted to drive what was underneath him.“I feel like Lewis felt the same as well. He sometimes wanted to go in his direction, but the engineers would be like: ‘No, the computer says this’.
“They have pretty advanced technology and simulation tools that allow it and quite often the computer was right but not 100 per cent.”to bring on more staff members to get up to the levels of other teams on the grid, to compete on more of an equal footing.
So, even the set up was taken care off for Lewis too!. Seems their only job was to keep the fastest car on track. Explains a lot about this year, when the sim is not right.