Lewis Hamilton: Mercedes ‘not on form’ in Hungary as hot weather struggles continue
A tricky day for Mercedes as their hot weather str🌟uggles continued at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Seven-time F1 world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton has admitted Mercedes haven’t “been on 🔜form” during Friday practice for the Hungariℱan Grand Prix.
Hamilton was only seventh fastest in the more representative second practice session, 0.6s down on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris’ top time.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell didn’t fare much better in the other Mercedes, ജsetting the♏ fifth best time in FP2.
Reflecting on the day at the Hungaroring. Hamilꦆton said: “Today’s not been a good day really. The weather’s been good. It’s been nice to be here. We’ve not been on form today.
“The car hasn’t felt good ꦦsetup wise. I think we have an ❀idea why. We’ll just work overnight. Not the best prep so far.”
🙈Hamilton hinted that there’s a significant change Mercedes can make overnight to improve their level of performance, stating “there’♈s a particular thing”.
Even so, Hamilton - who has won the Huඣngarian GP on eight previous occasions - was adamant Mercedes didn’t have the pace of either McLaren or Red Bull.
“Little tweaks but the car was pretty much the same [between the sessions]. “He added. “There’s a particular thing thaౠt we had left that w♏as changed for this weekend that we need to go back on. It’s all relatively close otherwise.
“We coꦬuldn’t do the laps of the other guys today but the lo🌳ng run pace was decent at the end.”
Since introducing a new front wing in M🐻onaco, Mercedes have enjoyed an impressive upward trajectory.
They’🔯ve won two races, winning the British Gran𝐆d Prix with Hamilton on merit.
However, it seems the W15 performs best in cooler con🍒ditions - like Canada and Britain - while during hotter weather, it struggles relatively-speaking.
Russell believes it’s something Mercedes still need to work on if they’re going to challenge Norris a🍎nd Verstappen at the Hung🎶aroring.
“We definitelyဣ got in more laps than most in the long run between FP1 and FP2,” he explained. “McLaren looks really quick, Lando is flying at the moment. I don’t think Max is too far behind. I think there’s a power difference between those two in the qualifying laps.
“Race run, Lando, Max, look a bit out front. The hot conditions of Austriaꦗ and Barcelona, we were off the pace versus those two drivers, and in the cooler conditions, we were ahead of those two. 🌊Something we need to work on.”
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