1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has advised 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton not to “slack o✅ff to🎐o much” in his 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 bet🐽ween the pair continued with Rus🦹sell out-qualifying Hamilton in every qualifying session held under the floodlights since Abu Dhabi 2022.

Mercedes were the third-fastest team in Bahrain as they 🌼struggled with an overheating engine, costing them a shot at challenging Ferrari for the podium.

2024 will be Hamilton’s final year with Mercedes and Hill has warned the seven-time world🍎 champion of complacency.

“Do you remember when he’d sewn up the championship [in 2015], beat Nico [Rosberg], and then Nico won the next three races and the🍎n 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 ha❀s got an abundance of talent, he could 🎉probably 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 could be repeating itself as he arrived in Bahrain “quite re♑laxed”.

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

“He needs to really, this year, establish everythingꦜ 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 results for Mercedes and then leave with a spring in his step, so that the challenge is still there.

“He mig🔯ht have been coming here [to Bahrain] quite relaxed, but he does tend to start a 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 inಞto the dirt. So we’ll see.”