Lewis Hamilton mentioned his Mercedes ‘messes with his mind’ following qualifying a horrible 11th in Melbourne.
Any advancement in his auto is really hard to detect despite a new design and style thought for this period. The 7-time world champion has been extra intently involved in the W15 than in former current cars – but with no pleasure.
He has competent eighth, ninth and 11th this year and finished seventh in Bahrain and ninth in Saudi Arabia.
Speaking in advance of the Australian Grand Prix, the British driver reported: ‘The inconsistency in the vehicle seriously messes with the brain.
‘George Russell (his crew-mate who has out-skilled him at each rounds, setting the seventh greatest time nowadays) did a good job, and I have to check out to do a greater task tomorrow.
Lewis Hamilton claimed his Mercedes auto ‘messes with his mind’ as he lamented its difficulties
The 7-time environment winner only qualified 11th on a discouraging afternoon for Mercedes
‘There is a prolonged list of points to take care of. Our car is on a knife edge.
‘In the afternoon the wind picks up and the auto will become unstable. But the others can decide their tempo up in qualifying and I am not confident why.
‘It is not a terrific feeling for every person in the group but we will keep functioning away.’
Hamilton, who will be part of Ferrari up coming time, added: ‘It is a few yrs in a row in which I have experienced a very similar feeling.
‘There are spikes like this early morning the place I consider it can be fantastic, and then it disappears.
‘If we can make the auto far more steady maybe we can be a lot more aggressive. All people is pushing as tricky as they can.’
Team principal Toto Wolff stated: ‘It’s primarily underwhelming due to the fact we had been in a tenth in FP3. The conditions had been a small bit different but there is no justification.
Toto Wolff reported there was ‘no excuse’ for the team’s general performance but identified as the car or truck ‘difficult’
George Russell certified seventh but was additional than .8 seconds slower than Max Verstappen
‘We have a car that is hard and you can be narrowly in and out of the window.
‘Much as I am aggravated for acquiring to say this for a prolonged time, we just require to continue on doing work on it and trying to get superior. It is not since of a lack of work that we are where by we are, but it is not superior ample.’