lewis hamiltontouched the podium in Hungary. She came very close to reaching ‘Checo’ Perez in the last few laps, but even for those he was not satisfied with the performance of his car during the race.
A glorious Saturday was the contrast to the harsh reality of Sunday and that is that the driver understands that in Mercedes they have gotten bad used to seeing max verstappen at the top.
For this reason, at the end of the Grand Prix he spoke to ‘Sky Sports’, asking for changes in his team and to point out the right direction he had an impact on Red Bull: “In general, we have more rear wing than the restsuch as Red Bull, for example”.
This is because the RB19 “it looks like it has more downforce on its flat bottom”. A flat bottom that was discovered in Monacowhen the car from ‘Checo’ Perezhad to be moved by crane.
Hamilton as a seven-time champion who is proved to be demanding: “I am very repetitive, I keep repeating to the team that we need to go in that direction“. “I don’t care if it’s With this year’s car or already with the 2024 car“, he assumed.
Hamilton’s reflection after the race: he started first and finished fourth
Given what was seen in the classification, it was expected that Lewis Hamilton would fight with max verstappen like old times. but his bad start condemned him Even so, the Briton is aware that his car is in another league compared to Red Bull: “We are very far from defeating the Red Bull in race pace and now we’re also behind the McLarens.”
“We have to keep pushing. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to win today and the team had already told me that I would be half a second slower than them,” he reflected. “The victory had escaped me, but maybe I could have finished third“, he concluded.
