Lewis Hamilton has no idea where he will be on the grid tomorrow. He did however admit the car felt ‘ok’.
“My car feels ok, but I don’t know what everyone else is doing. Some people might be heavier, some might be lighter. We might be seriously slow or we might be seriously quick, we just won’t know until we go into qualifying tomorrow.”
Lewis suffered a tyre degradation problem on his longer run in second practice, which could cause some concern come the race. His rear tyres in particular suffered heavy wear.
“I still don’t have an understanding of where everyone else is, but on the track for us it’s very hot so the degradation of both compounds of the tyres is very high.
“On the lighter to heavier fuel loads the car feels pretty similar, but it’s difficult to know where everyone is at the minute. You see the positions at the moment but it doesn’t really correlate too much.”
Hamilton has had to adapt his aggressive driving style to conserve tyres over longer runs, but admitted he was unsure of how hard he could push at the start of the race.
“You have to change your driving style and approach to each lap. It’s difficult to know what laptime to target when you do a long run on a heavier fuel load.”
“You don’t know how hard you can go and be able to push more later on. If you push less at the beginning does it mean you can push more at the end? It’s difficult to know and we’re still trying to understand it.”
