Mercedes F1 has climbed from “awful” in Monaco to “not good”

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell bagged a 4-5 result to mark the debut of the heavily revised W14, which has now gained more conventional sidepods and new front suspension.

While the positions were unchanged, Russell was hit with a five-second penalty for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner as he made contact with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez at Mirabeau.

Although Hamilton had the pace in the late wet stint to close to third-placed finisher Esteban Ocon, Mercedes…