168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes had their “best day” of the 2024 F1 season on Friday at the Monaco Grand Prix.

The seven-time world champion topped opening practice in Monte Carlo before ending🎀 the day with the second-fastest time, just 0.188 seconds behind Ferrari’s Cha♉rles Leclerc.

And Hamilton was delighted with Mercedes’ positive 🍸start to the w𓆉eekend.

“It’s been a good day, definitel💛y. The best day we’ve had, on-track,” Hamilton said.

“The car was a positive, I enjoyed driving it. The tr💫ack is amazing. The grip is quite good. We still have some challenges with the balance but it looked strong.”

Hamiꦯlton capped off an encouraging showing from Merced✤es at the legendary street circuit, having arrived in Monaco off the back of largely disappointing start to the season.

The 39𓆏-year-old Briton said his Mercedes W15 was much more enjoyable to drive around Monte Carlo than its previous two predecessors.

“What was a surprise was the 𓂃grip level and how the car was reacting,” Hamilton said. “Definitely a more enjoyable ride than we’ve had here previously, in the last two years particularly.

“The second session, I don’t know if we improved. On the long runs we have to work to do overnight to make sure we can make it until the end of the race. We need to i💝mprove long run pace and gra♏ining.”

Hamilton’s teammate George Russell was only 10th in FP2 after stru💦ggling with vibrations൲ in his car.

There will be some ca🔴ution at Mercedes given they have enjoyed encouraging Fridays already this year, only to dramatically drop away in competitiveness as the weekend has progressed.

“Overall, we've had a p﷽retty good day with both cars,”🦩 said Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin.

“FP1 was productive. We pulled forward the FP2 soft into that session as we expected rain although that never materialised and meant we were on used tyres for the low fuel soft in the after🦹noon.

“George was struggling with a vibration on braking - we 💝need to get on top of that for tomorrow as it appeared to get worse during the course of the day and was 🌠very intrusive this afternoon.

“However, the underlying pace of the car seems g🐻ood. Our long run needs some work as we've got to be a bit kinder on the front tyres on Sunday but we've got some options for that.

“We've also got to track the circuit as the grip comes up but it's encouraging that we seem to have a decent platform to wo🅷rk from.”