Lewis Hamilton is looking forward to not driving the Mercedes W13 F1 car again after the issues he's faced with it during the 2022 season. 'I don't ever plan to drive this one again.'
Hamilton will handle the car for the final time on Tuesday, when teams have a chance to sample the 2023 spec tyres ahead of next season.
“I definitely wasn't expecting to see such a big gap,” Hamilton said when asked by Motorsport.com about his qualifying session. “But we're losing six tenths on the straight. “We’ve obviously got some downforce, we just need to build a much more efficient car. And I think everybody in the team knows exactly what are the problems, and where they are, and where we've gone wrong and I'm pretty confident that they're not going to build the next car with any of those characteristics.
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