Mercedes have won two of the last three Recipe 1 races however Lewis Hamilton and George Russell didn’t sound satisfied with their W15 vehicles after training at Spa-Francorchamps During practice for the Belgian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton said that his Mercedes felt “completely different.”
He is hoping that the weather will clear up during qualifying.
The Silver Arrows have had a great few weeks thanks to their efforts to once again compete with the best teams.
The highlight was at Silverstone, where Hamilton won his first race in 945 days and locked out the front row with George Russell on pole.
The seven-time F1 champion likewise come to the platform in Hungary last end of the week however was over a second off the speed of speed setter Lando Norris toward the finish of FP2 on Friday.
It was clear that he was very worried about the size of that gap as well as how his W15 had felt on course. He said:
“It was a quite terrible day. I really don’t know what to say. It is evident that it has been feeling great over the past few races.
Today, that just felt totally different. So we dealt with it – the principal meeting wasn’t perfect, however at that point in the second meeting we rolled out certain improvements and it got going perfectly.
Additionally, I was unable to improve once I reached the soft tire, resulting in numerous balance issues throughout the lap. But this session made it better.
However, every other person did even better. So to be 1.2 seconds behind isn’t perfect.”
Hamilton’s Silverstone masterclass came in alterable atmospheric conditions as he by and by showed his ability in the downpour.
The Briton is expecting more wet weather conditions in qualifying – and he may very well get it with showers washing over the Ardennes Timberland. He continued, “If it’s dry, then we’re not going to be in the greatest of places right now.”
However, there are certain changes we can make overnight.
I believe that if it rains, it will open up a little bit, allowing us to hopefully do a better job.
The car ought to perform better in the wet than in the dry, in my opinion.”
Colleague Russell was additionally not happy with how his W15 felt and called attention to the three vehicles that he feels most certainly have predominant speed on this track the way things are.
He stated, “We’ve got some work to do overnight to find lap time.” Max Verstappen’s McLaren and Red Bull appeared to be ahead of us today.
We want to dig through the information and set forth the effort in the test system at Brackley to ideally uncover a few gains and draw nearer to them.
I’m sure we can accomplish that. “If we are able to do so, tomorrow will undoubtedly be a very different day.
Tomorrow’s forecast also calls for rain, so that will add another element to the mix.
We have frequently had good Fridays and the others have caught up on Saturday, so we hope that this weekend will be no different.”
