Lewis Hamilton: 'I didn't realise we would have such a huge deficit on the straights, but it's a good indicator.' AzerbaijanGP F1
Lewis Hamilton taken aback by ‘huge’ Mercedes deficit on Baku straightsLewis Hamilton says Mercedes still have a lot of work to do to “rectify” the W14 after alarming time losses down the straights in Azerbaijan GP qualifying.
Hamilton ultimately went on to secure P5 on the grid for Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, having finished almost a second off the surprise pacesetter, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who stretched his Baku pole streak to three in a row. “I didn’t realise we would have such a huge deficit on the straights, but it’s a good indicator, we’re slower on the straights and then slower in the middle sector, so we’ve got a lot of work to do to rectify that in the car, it’s not the easiest one to drive.PlanetF1.com recommendsWith the cars now into parc ferme conditions ahead of the sprint shootout and race on Saturday, Hamilton is hopeful that he can still “eke” a little more pace out of that W14.
“I think in Q2, yeah, struggled. I had more pace, I just didn’t get that last lap. My Q3, run one was a really sweet, sweet lap, unfortunately I just matched it basically at the end, but needed just a little bit more time just to nip a Ferrari [Carlos Sainz].
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