1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has advised 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton not to “sla𓄧ck off too much” in his final year with Mercedes.

Hamilton was out-qualified and out-raced by Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

It meant an unusual trဣend between the pair continued with Russell out-qualifying Hamilton in every qualifying session held under the floodlights since Abu Dhabi 2022.

Mercedes were the third-fas💞test team in Bahrain as they struggled with an overheatin🐻g engine, costing them a shot at challenging Ferrari for the podium.

2𓃲024 will be Hamilton’s final year with Mercedes a🌸nd Hill has warned the seven-time world champion of complacency.

“Do you remember when he’d sewn up the championship [in 2015], beat Nico [Ros🍸berg], and then Nico won the next three races and then won the cha𓄧mpionship the following year? You know, you cannot afford to back off too much,” Hill said on the F1 Nation Podcast.

“I think L𝄹ewis has got an abundance of talent, he could probably turn it on whenever he wants to, it’ll always be there – but it won’t. That’s the problem, it won’t always be there, because he’s getting on a bit.”

Hamilton has typically started seasons on the backfoot, particularly against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas.

Hill feels that history could ꧂be repeating itself as he arrived in Bahrain “quite relaxed”.

“And so, there is an element of, I𒆙 hope, he doesn’t slack off too much this𝓀 year,” he added.

“He needs to really, this year, establish everything about him and if there’s opportunities – and I know he’ll do it – but he needs to not get outqualified by George every race, he needs to getꦑ up there and get the best results for Mercedes and then leave with a spring in his step, so that the challenge is still there.

“He m🐷ight have been coming here [to Bahrain] ꧟quite relaxed, but he does tend to start a season quite relaxed, and then he just turns it up, after the summer break he comes back a little bit more angry, and the poor old team-mates get ground into the dirt. So we’ll see.”