The 37-year-old Briton, without a win after 11 races this year, will line up Sunday for his 300th race knowing he faces a struggle to close a significant performance deficit.
Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, world champion Max Verstappen and his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez all qualified ahead of Hamilton."But we are still here and everyone behind us is struggling so we just keep on fighting."
He said that anticipation of the latest updates package bringing a quantum leap in performance was misplaced. "Last race, we were three or four tenths off, so this weekend I thought we'd maybe be two-tenths off, but then we've been a second back all weekend."
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