Belgian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton mentioned the workforce made big enhancements to his automobile’s dealing with following their poor observe session on Friday.
Mercedes used the primary day of observe at Spa-Francorchamps to judge a brand new flooring for his or her W15. Nonetheless after ending the day outdoors the highest 5 they reverted to the unique design from Saturday.
Hamilton took third on the grid in a rain-affected qualifying session on Saturday. When dry climate returned on Sunday he was thrilled together with his automobile’s dealing with and raced to complete second on the highway, which grew to become first when his workforce mate George Russell was disqualified.
The automobile felt “night time and day totally different” within the grand prix, mentioned Hamilton within the press convention after Sunday’s race.
“On Friday it was fairly disastrous for each of us and we have been actually scuffling with steadiness. Then at present the automobile got here alive and I used to be actually stunned to, firstly, get into the lead after which be pulling away from everybody.
“It felt absolutely below management and I’ve not had that for years and in order that’s why it was additionally a little bit of an odd method to end it. however it’s it’s nice to enter the into the summer season break with the one two. the workforce did actually deserve it and did such a tremendous job.”
Hamilton has gained two of the final three races after ending a two-and-a-half yr win-less run. He mentioned each Mercedes drivers really feel “extra comfy within the automobile.”
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“The steadiness by low to medium to excessive [speed corners] are all rather more according to what we had focused.”
Talking earlier than he realized of his disqualification as his automobile was discovered underweight, Russell mentioned the workforce modified “a variety of issues” after their poor displaying on Friday.
“We’ve obtained a variety of issues we are able to mess around with,” he mentioned. “I believe we simply had it within the fallacious window on Friday.”
He’s assured the workforce will deal with the issues they skilled with the brand new flooring in time for the following race.
“We clearly reversed on the ground as a result of we simply wished to rule that out [as a cause]” he mentioned. “However I’ve obtained little doubt in Zandvoort we’ll be returning to the brand new aero package deal and getting the automobile in a barely totally different window mechanically.”
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