“Weaknesses need to be improved – Hamilton”
Here comes great news all the way from Formula 1 that Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes need to enhance what he accepts is a shortcoming in their begins after he lost a potential win in the Italian GP.
Hamilton was on post however dropped to 6th after an awful begin, with team-mate Nico Rosberg going ahead to win and lessen the title lead to two focuses.
“We’re still caught out by random variation from one race to another,” Hamilton said.
“As you’ve seen with Nico and me quite a few times, we need to work on it.”
“I can assure you on Tuesday it is the only thing I am going to work on because everything else we are doing really well,” he said.
“We are not struggling with pole positions; it is just getting off the line.”
Hamilton said he would talk about the issue with his engineers when he goes to the Mercedes processing plant on Tuesday for a question in front of the last seven races of the season.
Hamilton said: “We have been smashing the weekends, been quickest, dominant all weekend and then less than a tenth of a second decided the race.
“That is tough for everyone but when you look back and think of where we’ve come from it’s not so bad.
Hamilton was 43 focuses behind after Rosberg won the initial four races of the season however turned that around to take a 19-point lead into the late spring break with a keep running of six wins in seven races.
Rosberg said his methodology had not changed through the vacillations in the title.
“I am not thinking about it,” he said. “My belief to win individual races is as high as ever and I showed it today again and that’s it, because its my best approach.
“Because if I think about 43 points going to 19, I would lose sleep over that. So I just don’t think about it and enjoy winning the races.”
“We are still leading the world championship. We have had so many things go against us on our side of the garage that to come back and be where we are, it has been a phenomenal year, and there’s still lots of good things that can happen moving forwards.”
