Mercedes endured a disappointing Friday in Barcelona despite running their newly-upgraded W14, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell ending FP2 half a second off the pace in eighth, while Hamilton was a 🀅couple of tenths further back in 11th. 

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The revised Merc𓆉edes was slow༺er than the Red Bull, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine over a single lap, as well as Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas. 

And Hamilton is bracing for a tight battle to just reach the top-10, with the seven-time world champion noting t༒he “impressive” improvements made by Mercedes’ rivals. 

“I think from the pa🎃ce that I had today, it’s a struggle currently for me to get into the top-10,” Hamilton conceded. 

“But hopefully we’ll do some 🍌changes overnight. It’s very, very close between us and P5𓄧 back to P10, it’s really, really close between us all. 

“It’s impressive to see the improvements everyone seem💫s to have made all around us. If💖 you look at [Esteban] Ocon, the Alpines are doing great. 

“The Aston Martin was 🉐second, just behind the Red Bull, which is really, really impressive. It’s not going to be easy, that’s for sure.” 

Aske🌳d how Mercedes’ upgraded car felt, Hamilton said: 🧔"It’s okay. Were fighting as hard as we can. 

“I would say it was a difficult P1 and ꦛP2, just getting on top of the tyres and the deg. The car feels…🐻 The car feels like the car.

“I think the long-run pace didn’♎t look terrible, we’ve just got to work on trying to figure out how we extract more from a single lap.” 

Russell, who🌠 was the quicker Mercedes driver in both practice sessions, said: “A 🔯lot of people are bringing updates to the car. 

“We weren’t exp▨ecting to suddenly set the൲ world on fire. We just need to learn what we can from the info we’ve got and try to forward tomorrow.”