Despite bringing major upgrades in recent races, Mercedes are still lagging behind current F1 pacesetters Red Bull, who have claime🐠d all 10 race victories so far thi𒆙s season.

While Mercedes have made small gains following the introduction of a revamped W14 in Monaco, both Hamilton and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell have admitted more performance is needed if the team iꦿs going to start fighting for wins on merit. 

Asked why it is taking Mercedes so long to address the problems they are fac﷽ing in their bid to close the gap to Red Bull, the seven-time world champion replied: “You are preaching to the choir! 

"The thing we can't see is the airflow throughout the car. That is just limited when you look in the wind tunnel because there's only a certain amount you can move the c🌄ar.

"There's simulations with the new rules that we have, ඣand all the new tools we have had to create to༺ understand the flow structures underneath the car.

"All those vortices would blow your mind if you saw what's happening underneath the car, which is a lot diffe♐rent to t🐓he previous generations of cars. Working through that just takes time.

"And 🔯obviously, you're very limited with resources as well. So you hav𒁃e to be careful which decisions you make.

"If you go full steam a🐼head in one direction, yo💛u could lose weeks of development and it could be tenths of performance, so you have to have to be very methodical in the way they go through that process. I wish it was faster but unfortunately, it is not.”

After being outperformed by McLaren at the British Grand Prix, Toto Wolff admitted Mercedes will have “no choice” but to switch their full focus onto their 2024 challeng𝓀er soon. 

Hamilton revealed Mercedes have “things in the pipeline” for future races but doesn’t expect to make the “sort of leap” McLaren enjoyed with their recent upgrade package any time soon🐼.

“Things are in the pipeline for many races to come,” he explained. “That’s always the case because it takes time to buil🔜d things.

"James is great. We've got a reꦇally good relationship. He knows when to be stern. He’s probably never actually soft, to be honest.

"We had a great meeting just the other day where we had all the heads of departments within the room, ✤George and I, and just making sure we're on the same page.

"There was great communication and we have 100% faith in the🉐m. I think, just as a group, we will get to where we need to be. It is just going to take some tim🐓e."