Lewis Hamilton says the 2024 Mercedes Formula 1 car keeps showing 'spikes' of promise that then 'disappear', much like its troubled predecessors, as he attempts 2022-style set-up experiments.
The seven-time F1 world champion was eliminated in Q2 ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, having previously scored eight pole positions in Melbourne. He missed out on the top 10 shootout to team-mate George Russell by 0.05 seconds. Hamilton speculated the 'spike' of promise shown in final practice earlier on Saturday had been undone by increased winds for qualifying that put the W15 challenger on a 'knife edge'.
But there's a lot of work we need to do but everyone's working as hard as they can.' Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15 Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images Hamilton initially struggled to match Russell in the qualifying head-to-head during their first season as team-mates in 2022. But it eventually came to light that this was partly owed to Hamilton running with extreme set-up variations in a bid to troubleshoot the porpoising W13.
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