“For the remainder of the tracks, we now have had fairly good predictions of the place we are going to stand, and that signifies that I feel we perceive this automobile fairly effectively. There’s nonetheless quite a bit to know and also you at all times push to attempt to perceive issues that you simply didn’t already, however let’s say that it’s going to most probably be as anticipated, which implies fairly troublesome.”
For staff mate Lewis Hamilton, the weekend in Spain will mark his ninth in pink as he continues to adapt to the Scuderia’s automobile. By way of how that journey has gone to this point, the seven-time World Champion commented: “It’s been a enjoyable 12 months to this point. I’m trying forwards to getting on the monitor right here in Barcelona, a bit extra of a standard monitor.”
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Hamilton is hopeful that the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya would possibly present a possibility to evaluate the place the staff sit within the pecking order.
“This monitor has at all times been an excellent monitor for that,” he defined. “That is the monitor we used to check at most. It’s acquired an excellent mixture of corners, so often right here, you get a little bit of a lay of the land and the way far you’re off is absolutely the place you’re at.”
The venue can also be one at which Hamilton has achieved large success, with no driver aside from himself or Max Verstappen having received on the circuit since 2015.
Pushed on why he likes the monitor a lot, the Briton answered: “The climate’s at all times nice, I really like town, the monitor is cool as effectively. I don’t know why I’m going significantly effectively right here, however I hope it’s the case this weekend.”
