Lewis Hamilton’s lukewarm verdict to Mercedes W15: ‘A good foundation to build on’
Lewis Hamiꦜlton 🗹has given his reaction to driving the Mercedes W15 for the first time in anger during pre-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has labelled the Mercedes W15 F1 c♒ar as ಌa “good foundation to build on” after a full day of running in Bahrain.
Hamilton was in action for Mercedes on day two of pre-season testing, completing 123🍨 laps.
The seven-time world champion set the third-fastest ti🃏me of the day, on the C3 tyre, with his best effort 1.1s off the pace.
Reflecting on his firജst day in the car, Hamilton described the W15 as “much nicer to drive” compared to its predecessor.
"It was ⛦a productive day out there," Hamiton said. "We gathered lots of learnings about the W15, both in our long running and single lap work.
"We've clearly made an improvement ♔with this year𝔉's car and it's much nicer to drive.
"A big thank you to ever💫yone at Brackley and Brixworth for the efforts they've put in to deliver that over the past year. I'm really 🐻grateful for all their hard work.”
Hamilton was 0.4s shy of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez, who also set his best time on the C3 tyre.
The Ferrari-bound driver believes the W15 is a “goo𓄧d foundation to build on” with further progress required ahead of the season-opener.
"We've stil༺l got progress to make of course. But this is a go♎od foundation for us to build on,” he added.
"We'll keep our heads down and contiꦐnue to work to find improvements, both over the rest of the test and into next week.
"I'm looking forward to being back in the car tomorrow morning and continuing that lear🔯ning𝐆."
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