The British still did not find the feeling with the car: “It takes time, it also happened to me with Mercedes”
“One thing is certain: I’m all putting it all.” Word of Hamilton, back from a complicated start at the wheel of Ferrari but aware that Miami’s weekend can be an opportunity to return competitive. The Englishman is concentrated, he passed the break after the Gedda GP working on the simulator, because to brak him, so far, “it is not a factor or a particular aspect, but many small things that must be placed”. The time to adjust the first vintage in red is there, and the return of the sprint format, in which the British has caught the first (and unique) success at the wheel of the SF-25, can represent the opportunity that Lewis was waiting for.
Sprint approach
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“It is difficult to say what to expect from this weekend – explained the seven times world champion at the conference – but I think Charles in the last race has shown what our car can do in the race. So the goal is to repeat that type of performance”. To make it the Englishman will need a point at point immediately, given that: “In the sprint there are not too many changes”. “But this is not necessarily bad – explains Lewis – in China, after the qualifications we had not changed the car and we went well while in the other weekends we always try to fix something and we end up getting worse”.
As in Mercedes
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In short, the feeling with the SF-25 is not yet there, but it is not yet time to raise the white flag. “Even when I started with Mercedes, the first six months were complicated – reveals English – I had to set myself together, get used to their methods and work with new people. Like me, engineers also have to prepare the car for a different pilot with a different driving style than before”. Translated: Time is needed. A concept that also the former Ferrari Carlos Sainz – spent in Williams – reiterated Miami in the afternoon: “Being faster immediately than a new partner on a new car is difficult, indeed impossible”. “I think there is a fund of truth in what he says – Hamilton confirms – but in the end for each of us it is different”.
No updates
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The little time available to pilots and engineers, with a single session of free available on the American track, made it proposed for the absence of car updates. “We will not have – confirms Hamilton – so the goal is to maximize the package that we already have available”. Finally, a joke about his Italian, who seems to go hand in hand at his single -seater: “He is doing few progress lately … I have to commit more!”.
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