🗣 'I thought it'd be worse than that, so positive.' Lewis Hamilton admits that he didn’t expect to make it through to Q3 at the BahrainGP after his Mercedes F1 team struggled for pace earlier in the weekend ⬇️
Hamilton said that the team had made some good progress after a difficult Bahrain test and a disappointing start to the race weekend on Friday.
“I thought we would struggle to get into Q3, but we didn’t, we're in there, and in amongst the fight."Hamilton admitted theW14 is still lacking rear-end stability, although he believes it has been improved through the race weekend. “Same story you have in previous years. Before last year we had better rear end. It’s something we can work on."Mercedes experimented with two rear wing set-ups over the weekend, with Hamilton focussing on the new lower drag version that was more tailored for the Sakhir track than the one used in testing last week.
Asked if he was confident that it was the right choice, he said:"Who knows? It was pretty much the same. We did the same times on both the wings."
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