168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says he know knows “exactly” where Mercedes’ 2024 F1 car is “not 💜strong enough” and will advise t♔he team to push for improvements.

The seven-time world champion enjoyed his best qualifying of the season at the Japanese Grand Prix as he claimed seventh on the grid at Suzuka, some seven tenths adrift of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s Red Bull.

Hamilton ended his run of qualifying defeats to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, who was ninth, and was encouraged by theܫ performance of his W15 challeng𒁏er.

"I was giving it everything,” Hamilton said. "The team did a really great job this past week making adjus♔tments to our set-u🧸p.

“This is actually the first weekend I've not gone crazy with set-up and am not testing a bunch of things, so I'm back to a bit more ജnormal. I think we've got the car into a much nicer working window and so it's been really enjoyable driving, it's just the guys are just a little bit faster.

"We were a second or just ov🐼er a second off last year to the Red Bull and seven tenths is better. Maybe if we had done something a little bit different maybe we could have been another tenth faster, maybe, but other than that that was everything.

"I think what it's giving us is I know exactly where the car is not stron♛g enough, I can feel it in the car, and I know now to be tell them to 'push in this particular 𓃲area'. But I'm hoping the race will be stronger tomorrow.”

Asked if that means Mercedes now have 🌃a direction to go in, Hamilton replied: "I personally believe so, yeah.

"What we have noticed is track to track it has been really really hard to get the set-up right and it has been so far out each time. In some places it has felt like nothing 🍌we can do gets the car in a sweet spot.

“But this weekend it's much more 💝in the sweet spot and so I hope that continues in the following races. ꦕThen we've just got to add performance."