Mercedes brought a major upgrade to Monac🎐o, including new sidepods, but the package did not get a true test until last w🉐eekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at the more conventional Barcelona circuit. 

The early signs were positive, with Mercedes scoring their first double podium of the season as Hamilton finished second behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell pulled off a rem🐭arkable recover﷽y drive to third. 

Asked how much he♔art Mercedes fans can take from the team’s resurgent performance, 1996 world champion Hill told the Sky Sports F1 podcast: “I think quite a bit, because they’ve actually shown in the race they’ve leapfrogged the threat from Aston Martin and Ferrari. 

“At a circuit where it really pushes the car’s ability to look after it’s tyres and have a good aero balance, and have good aero performance, it’s actually sไhown that it’s good potential.

“Barcelona is one of those places where it show💦s up pure performance, aero package and ability to get balance and be good on tyres and ✱so forth, which is why the Red Bull’s were so dominant, at least Max’s was! 

“So I think there’s encouraging signs here for ꦅMercedes, definitely.”

Seven-time world champion Hamilton described the heavily-revised W14 as the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“best 🙈car” he has driven in 15 months. 

Hill reckons the result will provide a sense of “vindication” for Hamilton, who previously said Mercedes168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: “didn’t listen” to him over the development of their ♑2023 caꦬr. 

“To hearꦐ Lewis say, ‘I’ve enjoyed driving the car’, that is a go🅷od sign,” Hill added. 

“It’s also vindication for him because he’s been saying, ‘I tol🐻d you we should have done something earlier’. 

𝕴“They’ve gone and done what he’s been pleading with them to do and they’ve seen some progress, so wel𒆙l done Lewis.”