Lewis Hamilton has hailed Mercedes’ “amazing” upgrades after he led the way during both practice sessions at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Hamilton led team-mate Bottas in the pair of sessions, with the duo recording the quickest times on the Medium and Soft tyres, ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen.
Mercedes brought a raft of updates to its W08 for this weekend’s event at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and the Briton was effusive over progress.
“The team has done an amazing job with the upgrades and the car is working just as we expected,” said Hamilton.
“It’s been a much better start to the weekend for me than in Sochi so I’m very happy. We’ve just got to keep our heads down and keep working, we want to be number one.”
Bottas echoed Hamilton’s sentiments and feels “everything is working well” with Mercedes’ updates.
“Today was an important one for us with the new upgrade package on the car,” he said. “Our target was to evaluate if the new upgrades are working well and it seems like they are.
“At this time it’s way too early to tell exactly where we are, but everything seems to be working well so far.
“It’s always nice to start the weekend in a positive way, but the main days are Saturday and Sunday.
“As always we will work hard to find any performance. I really enjoyed it out there today so I hope we can squeeze more performance out of the package.”
