‘Not my way of driving’ - What Lewis Hamilton ‘hates’ about F1's current cars
Lewis Hamilton has opened up on his struggles to adapt to F1✃'s c✅urrent generation of cars.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has explained his struggles to adapt to the current generation of F1 cars.
Ahead of this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Mercedes admitted Hamilton has fou꧅nd it harder to perform at his best under the new era of regulations that were introduced in 2022.
The sev𒁃en-time world champion holds the record for most pole positions in F1 with 104 but has only topped qualifying once in the last two-and-a-half years, while he ended a 945-day wait for victory last time out at the British Grand Prix.
Speaking on Friday, Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andr༺ew Shovlin said the new generation of car are “not suiting” 🍃Hamilton’s style and revealed he has been “working on how he drives”.
“It’s just with these tyres,” Hamilton said of Shovlin’s comments. “Fo꧃r some reason, they don’t like the way I drive on a single lap.
“I’ve sucked in qualifying ꦯfor quite a while and I’m still working on it to try and improve. At some stage it will come, I’ve just got to keep working on it.”
Hamilton say🌄s he finds it frustrating that the best way to drive F1’s latest cars goes against his natural driving style.
“I would say in my career, I’ve never really had massive problems adapting to tyres. But I’m not sure it’s necessar▨ily⛎ tyres, I think it’s the type of car,” he added.
“The car is very… It’s more on a knife edge than꧋ ever and it doesn’t like it 🃏when you brake late and deep and make a corner a V.
“You 𒁃have to brake early and roll the speed in and I hate that. That’s just not me. It’s not my kind of way of driving the car. I find that really frustrating.”
Hamilton qualified fifth for Mercedes in Hungary as he outpaced teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, who suffered a shock Q1 elimination, for onl🔯y the third time🎀 this season.
“ཧI’ve s🐬truggled this weekend with the car, particularly in the heat it’s been really, really difficult to find a balance where the car is not snappy,” he said.
“If you look at the Red Bull and the McLaren, they just don’t have the oversteer. The car is just on rails. F🐭or us, the heꦉat makes it worse.
“When we started qualifying an♍d it was cooler, we were in a much better place. As soon as it started to dry and got hotter, then we struggled.”
He added: “I think we could have maybe🌊 gone a tenth or two quicker if we’d gone out later for example.
“The track was continuously ramping up, but we ꦿdefinit꧟ely couldn’t have done what the guys up there have done.”
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