Lewis Hamilton suspects Mercedes are going to get it”hard to beat” rejuvenated Ferrari at F1’s forthcoming races – but has endorsed the entire world champions to climb to the renewed challenge.
Against all expectations in Singapore, to get a track that needs high downforce – a 2019 Ferrari weakness – the Scuderia completed second and first in the race to expand their winning run to 3 races of Sunday – their best sequence for 11 years.
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Mercedes have suffered three successive defeats for the second time in the previous six seasons.
And with Ferrari now having found a breakthrough by using their car on tracks that do not demand horsepower – the established power of the SF90 – Hamilton is currently expecting a more constant struggle.
“I am a realist, therefore I see the situation we’re in and they’ve just come up with some type of upgrade that’s possibly put their auto… perhaps they have had a good car all year and it simply wasn’t working in the perfect window,” said Hamilton on Sunday night.
“Who knows, since it’s unlikely they’ve attracted a gigantic, massive upgrade that is brought 20-30 things [of downforce] to a thing which performance-wise is likely what you would expect they’ve taken here.
“But clearly their car works extremely well everywhere today so it is definitely going to be very tough to beat them, particularly as they’re so fast on the straights. We can not compete with them on the straights right now.”
Mercedes should’pull our socks up’
Despite the winning run of Ferrari, Hamilton and Mercedes’ constant winning form before the August summer break implies that they remain firmly on course.
Hamilton actually extended his name contribute into 65 points over Valtteri Bottas, while Ferrari writer, Leclerc, is 96 points adrift with 156 points to perform for over the last six races.
“We have won earlier with not the very ideal car but it’s really how we provide the weekend.
“At the moment they’re providing better from the operations region. Today I did enough at the race to come out and lead but the whole processes didn’t do the job as well as it ought to do. So we have only got to re-huddle, return with them, work hard and move forwards.”
The world champion added:”Of course it’s got tighter and tighter as the season has gone on, we work on that, but in exactly the identical time we have only got to do a much better job.
“We’re doing such a excellent job at the start of the year plus we’ve got this difference, but the difference could certainly go. I am under no illusions, my gap at the championship – it’s not won.
“We have got to pull up our socks. Together we can do. But we lose and win as a group and most of us do not feel good at the moment.”
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