Mercedes endured a disappointing Friday in Barcelona despite running their newly-upgraded W14, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell ending FP2 half a second off the pace in eighth, while Ham꧟ilton was a couple of tenths further back in 11th. 

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The revised Mercedes was slower 🍸than the Red Bull, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine over a single lap, as well as Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas.ꦑ 

And Hamilton is bracing for a tight battle to just reach the top-10, with 💃the seven-time world champion noting the “impressive” improvements made by Mercedes’ rivals. 

“I think from the pace that I had today, it’s a struggle currently for me toღ get into the top-10,” Hamilton ☂conceded. 

“But hopefully we’ll do some changes overnight. It’s very, very close between us and P5 back to P10, it’s re🦩ally, really c🉐lose between us all. 

“It’s impress🥃ive to see the improvements everyone seems to have made all around us. If you look at [Esteban] Ocon, the Alpines are doing great. 

“The Aston Martin was second, just behind the R𒈔ed Bull, which is really, really impressive. It’s no🐠t going to be easy, that’s for sure.” 

Asked how Mercedes’ upgraded car felt, Hamilton said: "It’s okay. Were fighting as hard as we𓆉 can. 

“I would say it was a diffic💮ult P1 and P2, just getting on top of the tyres and the deg. The 🥀car feels… The car feels like the car.

“I think the long-run pace didn’t look terrible, we’ve just got to wor🔯k on trying to figure out how we extr🧸act more from a single lap.” 

Russell, who was the quicker Mercedes driver in both practice sessions, sa♒id: “A lot of people are bringing updates 𒆙to the car. 

“We weren’t expecting to suddenly set the world on fire.♉ We just need to learn what we can from the info we’ve got and try to forward tomorrow.”