Lewis Hamilton’s lukewarm verdict to Mercedes W15: ‘A good foundation to build on’
Lewis Hamilton has giv༺en his reaction to driving the Mercedes W15 for the first time in 𝓡anger during pre-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has labelled the Mercedes W15 F1 car as a “good foundation to build on🍨” after a full day of running in Bahrain.
Hamilton 𓆏was in action for Mercedes on day two of pre-season testinཧg, completing 123 laps.
The seven-time world champion set the third-📖fastest time of the day, on the C3 tyre, with his best eff༺ort 1.1s off the pace.
Reflecting on his first day in the car, Hamilton described the♈ W15 as “🥃much nicer to drive” compared to its predecessor.
"It was a productive day 🤡out ꦅthere," Hamiton said. "We gathered lots of learnings about the W15, both in our long running and single lap work.
"We've 🔥clearly made an improvement with this year's car and it's much nice🍸r to drive.
"A big thank you to everyone at Brackley and Brixworth for the efforts they've put in to deliver that over the past year. I'm really grateful fo🦹r all their hard work.”
Hamilton was 0.4s shy of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez, who also set his best time on the C3 tyre.
The Ferrari-bound driver believes the W15 is a “good foundationꦉ to build on” with further progress required ahead of the season-opener.
"We've still got progress to make of course. 𒈔But this is 🌊a good foundation for us to build on,” he added.
"We'll keep our heads down and continue to work to find improvements, both over🌠 the rest of the test and into๊ next week.
"𒅌I'm looking forward to being back in the car tomorrow morning and continuing that learning."
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