He says he knew that would be the case from the first moment he drove this year’s car. So we just didn’t improve for a long, long, long time. At Mercedes, this has not just been a difficult year on the track. “No, not when we were doing negotiations,” he says. He says he is “just trying to help him in any way I can”. And he says he has been happy with his performances this year, especially in the races. “Most of my race performances have been really good,” he says. “Qualifying is still an area that needs to be improved,” Hamilton says. The same could have been said about Hamilton and Mercedes not so long ago.

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