1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has advised 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton🐬 not to “slack off too much” in hi🥃s final year with Mercedes.

Hamilton was out-qualified and out-raced by Mercedes teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: George Russell at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

It meant an unusual trend between the pair ෴c♉ontinued with Russell out-qualifying Hamilton in every qualifying session held under the floodlights since Abu Dhabi 2022.

M👍ercedes were the third-fastest team in Bahr💮ain as they struggled with an overheating engine, costing them a shot at challenging Ferrari for the podium.

2🅰024 will be Hamilton’s final year with Mercedes and Hill has warned the seven-time wor▨ld champion of complacency.

“Do you remeꦜmber when he’d sewn up the championshi🦹p [in 2015], beat Nico [Rosberg], and then Nico won the next three races and then won the championship the following year? You know, you cannot afford to back off too much,” Hill said on the F1 Nation Podcast.

“I think Lewis has got an abundance of talent, he could probab🍎ly turn it on whenever he wants to, it’ll always be there – but it won’t. That’s the problem, it won’t always be there,๊ because he’s getting on a bit.”

Hamilton has typically started seasons on the backfoot, particularly against 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Rosberg and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas.

Hill feels that history co🌳uld be repeating itself as he a🎉rrived in Bahrain “quite relaxed”.

“And so, there is an element of, I hope, he doesn’t slack off too much this year𓆉,” he added.

“He needs to r🥀eally, this year, establish everything about him and if there’s opportunities – and I know he’ll do it – but he needs to not get outqualified by George every race, he needs to get up there and get the best resul♉ts for Mercedes and then leave with a spring in his step, so that the challenge is still there.

“He might have been coming here [to Bahrain] quite relaxed, but he does tend to start 𝓀a season quite relaxed, and then he just turns it up, after the summer break he comes back a little bit more angry, and the poor old team-mates get ground into the dirt. So we’ll see.”