Lewis Hamilton’s strong Monaco Friday analysed: “He’s found a sweet spot with the car”
Jenson Button was impressed wit🦹h Lewis Hamilton's pe﷽rformance on Friday in Monaco.
2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button believes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has “found the sweet 💦🤪spot” with the Mercedes W14 after an impressive showing in Friday practice at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Hamilton topped the morning session before being 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s nearest challenger in second practice to cap ꦚoff a 🧔strong day in the principality.
The seven-time wo꧙rld champion has acknowledged his need to up hisᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ qualifying pace after struggling on Saturdays in 2024.
Hamilton is currently 6-1 down in the qualifying head-to-head against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, and with overtaking so dif♔ficult in Monaco,😼 he will need to be at his best tomorrow afternoon.
Assessing Hamilton’s performance 🌠in Monaco, Button feels that Hamilton quickly found his confidence with the car.
“He is confident a♔rriving here,” Button said. “He is very relaxed. But you still need a car that gives you confidence, and they have struggled with 🍸that this year. He has found a sweet spot with the car.
“Make se🥂t-up changes and you might gain a tenth, or half a tenth, around most tracks. Here, if it puts you into a window where you have confidence, it’s a massive chunk.
“That’s why we see big gaps between the cars. Once people find a set-u🔥p which works for them, it will be super close in qualifying.”
ඣIt was contrasting fortunes in the Mercedes garage as Russell 💦could only set the 10th fastest time in FP2.
Russell was ꦕcomplaining about🍒 the steering and of braking vibrations, compromising his progress.
He was also running the revised Mercedes front wing for this weekend as they assess whether it can 💟improve the recurring balance issues they’ve faced.
Former W Series driver Naomi Schiff thought there was something definitely off with Russell’s car❀.
“He mentioned something about stee🌳ring torque, he wondered 🌠if there was a big issue,” she explained.
“I can’t imagineꦫ there is such a big difference between Lewis 🌟and George here.
“You saw them working on the 𓃲car so there’s obviously something not 100% about that car.
“These things won’t cause you t﷽o have more confidence around here. Unfortunate.”
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