Lewis Hamilton has conceded Ferrari’s new improve bundle for the Austrian Grand Prix hasn’t “modified our competitiveness” after a tough Friday.
Hamilton ended second follow tenth quickest, 0.931s down on Lando Norris’ prime time.
Ferrari’s upgrades was the massive speaking level going into this double-header in Austria and Britain.
Ferrari’s season has been hampered by a rear suspension situation, which prevents them from working their automotive optimally.
This additionally means their flooring undergo important put on throughout races, so each drivers often should handle their tempo.
Ferrari have a revised flooring for this weekend on the Purple Bull Ring.
Nonetheless, evidently it has had little affect on Ferrari’s general tempo.
Talking after Friday follow in Austria, Hamilton mentioned: “An enormous quantity of labor went on to carry the ground however as you see, it’s not essentially modified our competitiveness.
“The automotive doesn’t really feel dangerous however we’re an enormous chunk off tempo smart. We have to look into that. We’ll simply hold pushing and attempt to dial the automotive in additional, and see what we are able to get. It’s clearly very shut within the prime 10 so a tenth could make the distinction so we’ll work in direction of making an attempt to gaining at the very least that in a single day.”
A gearbox situation compromised Hamilton’s FP1 working.
The 40-year-old was happy with Ferrari’s restoration however dominated out difficult on the entrance in qualifying.
“Not spectacular. We had an issue within the morning with the gearbox which was clearly troublesome, irritating for everybody within the storage as a result of the boys did an awesome job,” Hamilton added.
“They saved topping it up however we may solely do one lap so we couldn’t do the lengthy runs and stuff. I believe we recovered OK with it. They did an awesome job altering the gearbox and getting us prepared for P2.
“Charles was six-tenths off. I used to be near a second off. Not perfect however I believe there’s a number of be taught so we’ll make some modifications. Hopefully we are able to attempt to get a bit of bit nearer. We received’t be on the entrance.”
Leclerc: Efficiency not fairly there
Charles Leclerc sat out of FP1 as Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic obtained a style of an F1 automotive in a aggressive session.
Leclerc felt he didn’t want a lot time getting on top of things after lacking first follow.
However like Hamilton, he wasn’t too complimentary about Ferrari’s efficiency.
“Probably not. FP1 didn’t actually compromise FP2,” Leclerc defined. “I felt type of comfortable on the observe right away however not likely as simply because the automotive and the way it feels.
“There’s fairly a bit of labor that must be finished for tomorrow. It doesn’t really feel just like the efficiency is kind of there but however hopefully we’ll put the whole lot collectively tomorrow and take a step ahead. There’s numerous work to be finished tonight.”
