Now Mercedes' upgrades have taken effect, Lewis Hamilton believes the team can put a little bit of focus elsewhere... F1 MercedesAMG Formula1
Why Lewis Hamilton believes Mercedes should now ‘take one eye off the ball’With a second podium in two races in his heavily updated W14, Mercedes’ development path has been validated with Lewis Hamilton saying now it’s time to focus, at least “a little bit”, on next year’s car.
That, barring Australia, was the closest Mercedes have been to the Red Bull race winner in any grand prix this season. Hamilton’s podium result in Montreal was Mercedes’ third in total in the new and improved W14, with both drivers on the podium in Spain where Hamilton was second with George Russell third.
“But the characteristics of the car are very, very similar to what we had earlier on in the year and so we need to… for the future, for the next year’s car, you need to take a lot of these different things off and change them for sure. “I would say that’s something I dislike most about this generation of cars, right? Back in the day was smooth down the straight.”
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