🗣️'We’re battling the same thing most of the time. It’s a tough car to drive.' Hamilton finished P15 on Friday at the F1 BritishGP with Russell P12 in the other Mercedes ⬇️
Lewis Hamilton thinks his failure to make gains on soft tyres in Friday practice at Formula 1’s British Grand Prix shows something is “wrong” with his Mercedes.ran a different programme to other squads on the opening day of action, as they steered clear of using the soft tyre in FP1.
“No matter what we do to set-up, it continues to be a tough car to drive. On a single lap I didn’t feel any improvement between tyres, which shows that something is wrong. We’re missing something. Hamilton said that even the long run pace had not been clear to understand though, because he sensed the pace picked up towards the end of his stint.
“This track is really about trying to weigh the scales the whole way around and making compromises here and there. There’s such a fine edge on the balance and such a big balance window. It’s back and forth, it’s never just here and you can just drive it. “We thought it was right up there if we took the soft. But in FP2 we were nowhere. So, we just need to try and understand that.” ’ performance was further clouded by the fact that both he and Russell seemed ready to switch set-ups and follow what the other did.
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