Lewis Hamilton has labelled Friday practice at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix as a “really bad day”, declaring Mercedes are a “long way off”.
“It is an area where we need to work on to get the car in a better sweet-spot and not overheating our tyres as much.
“We will work on it overnight and try to turn it around but we definitely won’t be winning this weekend.“If I can particularly move a little bit up the order so I can at least back up… George did not so bad a lap, so yeah. Tough one.” Russell described it as a “half-reasonable day” but said it is clear that Red Bull are back to their “normal ways” after suffering a shock defeat in Singapore.
“Red Bull are back to their normal ways, which I don’t think is a major surprise,” he said. “They seem very, very quick but not too far from P2. I think there’s two-tenths in it. So I think they’ll be a good fight between the Ferraris and Lando. “We’re probably half a second behind Ferrari and Lando, so we got a bit of work to do tonight to close that gap. It’s going to be a really interesting race Sunday because tyre deg looks really really high.”
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