Lewis Hamilton certainly had his mojo back after leading both sessions at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday.
Having insisted Mercedes’ claims of a deficit to Ferrari were not “BS” on Thursday, he and teammate Valtteri Bottas contradicted that by holding a 0.8s advantage over the field at the end of Practice 2.
Once back in the paddock, all the doom and gloom certainly appeared to have disappeared around the five-time Formula 1 champion.
“It’s really nice to get back out on track, I have a positive buzz from driving the car today – this is what I love doing,” he declared.
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As for his assessment of the W10, despite what appeared to be a stiff suspension and
“The car feels like it’s in a similar place to where it was in Barcelona, which is positive coming to a different track,” he said.
“We got through our programme really well, there were no issues on track. There’s plenty of stuff that we can improve on, but this was not a bad start.
“What we have to do now is really study and analyse everything, as we always do on a Friday night,” Lewis admitted.
“But the fact is we’ve got two cars that continue to go around, none of us made a mistake and we kept the cars in one piece – that counts for a lot.”
