Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes W14 Formula 1 car was “night and day different” on Friday in Mexico City compared to the last race in Austin.
Just five days after finishing a close second on the road to Max Verstappen at COTA, Hamilton was 11th in FP1 and seventh in FP2, 0.338s off the pacesetting Red Bull driver in a tightly-packed field. His team-mate George Russell was 10th in FP2, having handed his car to Mercedes junior driver Frederik Vesti for the first session. After some changes in the break, Hamilton and Russell ran different set-ups in the later session, and neither was happy with the performance.
'But we've got to figure out how to make it easier for us to be able to extract that performance. So that's what we'll work on tonight.' Russell, who had to play catch up after missing FP1, noted that there were a lot of factors at play in the disappointing performance. Like Hamilton, he believes that the car can be improved overnight.
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