2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button believes 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton has “found the sweet spot” with the Mercedes W14 after an impr🙈essive showing in Friday practice at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Hamilton topped the morning session before being 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc’s nearest challenger in second pr🌃actice to cap off a strong day in the princip🃏ality.

The seven-𓆉time world champion has acknowledged his need to up his qualifying pace after struggling on Saturdays in 20♉24.

Hamilton is currently 6-1 down in the qualifying head-to-head against 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell, and with overtaking so ♑difficult in Monaco, he will need to be at🎐 his best tomorrow afternoon.

Assessing Hamilton’s performance in Monaco, Button feels that Hamilton qu🔜ickly found his confidence with 𓆏the car.

“ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤ꦉ⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚHe is confident arriving here,” Button said. “He is very relaxed. But you still need a car that gives you confidence, and they have struggled with that this year. He has found a sweet spot with the car.

“Make set-up changes and you might gain a tenth, or half a tenth, around most tracks. Here, if it pu🐻ts💧 you into a window where you have confidence, it’s a massive chunk.

“That’s why we see big gaps between♈ the cars. Once people find a set-up which works for them, it will be super close in qualifying.”

It was contrasting fortunes in the Mercedes garage 💎as Russell could only set the 10th fastest time in FP2.

𒆙Russell was complaining about the steering and of braking ⛄vibrations, compromising his progress.

He was also running the revised Mercedes front wing for this weekend as they assess whether it can improve the recurring balance issues they’❀ve faced.

Former W Series driver Naomi Schiff t🍸houg๊ht there was something definitely off with Russell’s car.

“He ment𓆉ioned something about steering torq⛎ue, he wondered if there was a big issue,” she explained.

“I can’t imagine there is such a big differ൲ence between Lewis and George here.

“You saw them working on the car so there’s obviously something not 100% about 😼that car.

“These things won’t cause you to have mor☂e confidence around here. Unfortunate.”