Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes Formula 1 driver, claims to have found the “North Star”. He claims the team is heading into the right direction for its W14 car.
In Monaco, the Mercedes team upgraded its cars and tested on track to find the true potential of the upgrade package. The team showed strong formation in Spain where Hamilton and George Russell finished second and third.
The seven times world champion showed its confidence on the upgrade and he believed the momentum would continue.
“Yeah, definitely a lot, that we’ve been making progress,” he said. “And the car, [after the] last race, we’ve all been buzzing, I think, back at the factory.
“And the whole team has this new energy and kind of feels like we’ve got a North Star. We know where we’re going; we know how to get there.
“Everyone’s just churning away and working as hard as possible. So, excited to come here. We genuinely don’t know whether this track suits our car, and the car’s characteristics, but the weather may change that, and we’ll see.”
Hamilton shrugs off any notion that he has became frustrated with the current situation at the team. He insists that the current progress is equivalent to the race wins.
“I don’t feel any weight,” he said. “We’ve gone through a tough patch and we’re kind of, like, on that up. For example, the last race and some of the races, it feels like we’ve had wins. It’s just about perspective.
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“Of course, we’ve not been in first place but there have been many wins in the steps that we’ve taken. The last race, for us, as a team, to be on the podium with both drivers, that was a win for us. And so we’re just focused.
“We know, as I was just saying earlier, that we have that North Star. We know where we need to go.
He added: “We don’t know everything about how to get there but we know that together we can get there if we just keep our heads down and focus on the science.
“The engineering team is fantastic within the organisation. We’ve got a great development team and I honestly think we’ve got the best development rate, as good if not better than any team in the sport, and so you’ve just got to keep chipping away.”
