Lewis Hamilton reveals the impact of Mercedes’ Imola F1 upgrades

Mercedes'🧔 Imola upgardes assessed by Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W15 makes a pit stop. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 7, Emilia Romagna Grand Prix,
Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W15 makes a pit stop. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 7,…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ upgrades made little difference⛦ to their overall performance at the F1 Emi♔lia Romagna Grand Prix.

Mercedes introduced the latest batch of updates to their troubled andꦯ inconsistent W15 at Imola, following on from the first part of an upgrade package that d✅ebuted in Miami two weeks earlier.

Hamilton finished sixth in Sunday’s grand prix, one place ahead of his two-stopping teammate George Russell, with the front-running Mercedes finishing some 35 seconds behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who too♓k his fifth𝓡 victory in seven races.

The seve🧸n-time world champion downplayed the impact of the updates after the race, saying they made “not a big difference”.

Hamilton added: “They are small steps but very, very sma🐼ll.

“My pace in the second st🐭int stint was comparable to the guys towards the front. But we're still I think we're still lacking two or three-tenths.”

Despite the💖 seemingly minimal step forward, Merced⭕es boss Toto Wolff said he feels “more confident” his side are not on the right development path after two frustrating seasons of underwhelming competitiveness.

“I think that what we a💧re seeing on the car now is that those incremental g﷽ains that we are bringing rather than a miracle update are getting the car in a better balance window and making the car just have more performance,” he explained.

"But it’s these things where you g𒁏ain a tenth or a te🐲nth and a half but at the same time the other teams are making progress.

“We are on a trajectory where we are making the ꦿcar better, we can see that, it’s never like the share price going up like this it will do like this [gestures], as long as the kind of direction is correct and I feel more confident now.”

Ham💮ilton made a sizeable error during the race when he ran wide at Acque Minerali and took a trip th🌱rough the gravel.

“I think [I lost] about probably about five seconds wit𝔉h that off,” Hamilton conceded.

“Then that meant that I came out behind Fernan♊do and I lost another bunch of seconds there so I think probably all in all probably eight seconds.

“So not ideal, but it didn't lose any positions.”

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