Lewis Hamilton believes the McLaren team are ‘over-delivering’ with the car they have.
The Woking-based outfit currently tops the constructors’ championship with a 29 point lead, and holds the top two places in the drivers’ championship despite not having the quickest car on the grid.
“We’re really happy with the result, overall we’re doing a damn solid job with what we have,” said the Brit.
“We’re not the quickest but the car is good. But we’re over-delivering with the package we have. We’re definitely over-delivering.”
Red Bull clearly have the quickest car, having taken nine of the ten pole positions, but the Milton Keynes based team has suffered from reliability problems, as well as recent favouritism accusations.
Hamilton knows the McLaren team have their work cut-out to catch the ‘Bulls’ but he believes the team will catch them in the coming races, if they can get their recent upgrades working sufficiently.
“Red Bull are still the quickest. They were over a second quicker in qualifying,” he added. “We’ve still got a huge amount of time to find in the car.
“Hopefully in the next race, in the next two races, we should be able to get our upgrades working and we will be with them.”
