Mercedes have struggled for outright performance, with their strong reliability allowing the tea💛m to score 11 podiums (Six for Hamilton; five for George Russell).

Hamilton is without a win this season meaning 2022 could be the first season in his F1 career t🌠hat he hasn’t scored a grand prꦦix victory.

After an unfortunate retirement last time out at the Belgian Grand Prix, Ha☂milton is hopeful Mercedes are more competitive at𒊎 Zandvoort.

Speaking on Thursday ahead of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Dutch Grand Prix, Hamilton spoke about how a car’s performance limits 𒁃how much a driver can showcase their true talent amid Max Verstappen’s dominance this season.

“I mean the car does limit us,” he said. “I think for anyone that’s further back in the order they are limited by the machinery they have. If we all had the same car, no matter which one it was, you would see a better reflec👍tionꦜ of each driver, but that’s obviously not the case. 

“Every time we get in the car we arrive optimistic, sometimes too optimistic and we have to lower that optimism but try and keep it throughout the weekend. But it becomes very clear straightaway where we stand and that we still often have the limitations that we do. A𒈔nd every time you get in the car there’s just more a꧂nd more information that I’m able to pass into the team to try and get us on the right track for next year.”

With Verstappen and Red Bull dominating both🐓 championships, attention has naturally turned to next year.

Hamilton revealed that he’s ‘applying a lot of his time’ in communicating with Mercedes’ engineers to help with the 2023 car design in a bi🌳d to get back to race-winning ways.

That’s really where I’m applying a lot of my time, is just ♊communication with all the heads of different dep🥃artments really to make sure that we don’t leave any stone unturned. It could be brakes, could be gear ratios, could be suspension, ride, aero characteristics when you hit the brakes to when you turn to when you get back on power - all these sorts of things - to help guide them in terms of where they design the car for next year.”