After a disrupted first day, Lewis Hamilton admitted that his problems had heavily compromised his free practice sessions despite his fastest final time during FP2.<\/p>\n
After technical issues encountered during FP1, which forced him to stop on track and were found to be related to a data recovery problem by the team, the reigning world champion faced a similar issue during the afternoon session before being able to go back out and set the best time of 1:39.790 (medium tires).<\/p>\n
My preparations have been quite heavily compromised. Every time you lose a session, it really doesn’t help and a large part of the second one too, but the team did a fantastic job repairing the car and I’m grateful for that. Just being able to do a few laps was crucial. If I hadn’t done anything today, Sunday would have been difficult, he explains as reported by Crash.net<\/i>.<\/p>\n
He believes that despite his best time, he can still do much better: \u00ab I know my lap wasn’t spectacular, I think I have some improvements to make in terms of balance and settings; they all come from the last race, so I’m sure we will improve that. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Hamilton is impressed by the pace of his closest competitors: \u00ab The Ferraris are impressive! It’s surprising to see how good their times are. We’ll see if this continues all weekend. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lewis Hamilton experienced a challenging day dotted with numerous telemetry issues. However, he managed to set the fastest time and believes he can do much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":39298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[841,964,1453],"class_list":["post-13605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-hamilton","tag-mercedes-amg-f1","tag-sepang"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n