“Time will tell. I think we’ve cracked something. Now it’s trying to build on it.”
The weekend in Barcelona was the just the second time this year that Hamilton was ahead ofHamilton converted third on the grid into his first podium of the year as Mercedes continued on their upward trajectory.Speaking to select media includingin Austria, Hamilton revealed a “huge amount of analysis” has been done to explain his Saturday struggles and he believes it’s simply down to the tyres.
“There’s a huge amount of analysis,” he said. “I have requested a lot of information from the team on how we can improve, where we are lacking. It is simply the tyres and so. Just continuing to improve on our processes from session to session, particularly once we get to qualifying things do change a little bit.
“Car is obviously lighter, DRS is used a lot more. Time will tell. I think we’ve cracked something. Now it’s trying to build on it.”Lewis Hamilton Mercedes AMG F1 W15. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd…“The car aerodynamically is on a knife edge,” he added. “It’s not as easy to balance with the mechanical side. The aero balance from high to low speed getting that configuration is difficult.
“Tyre temperature and how you do your out laps is key. Ferraris in Montreal didn’t get out of Q2 for example - that can only be tyre temperature but they’ve got a good car, they won the race before that. “It just shows it’s not easy to have the tyres working, over work the tyres, they’re definitely more sensitive than in any other season that I remember being.”
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