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Setup changes also aren’t likely to make much of a difference to the overall pace of the W14, according to Hamilton, as he said he felt the car was already in a good performance window.“So we’ll continue to tweak little bits here and there but it’s going to be small bits here and there, which is milliseconds, it’s not going to be the closing of a gap of a second. Nonetheless, we’ll just keep our head down tonight, we’ll go through the data, and will continue to work and try to progress tomorrow.
“On the long run, we’re quite close to Ferrari, it looks like Aston was second. And we’re kind of between third and fourth. So we’re kind of where we were last year, if not a little bit further behind.” As for whether there’s any hope of a competitive season as Mercedes aim to add upgrades to the car to address their deficit, Hamilton said it could be difficult given the philosophy Mercedes have chosen.
“I have to be hopeful. There was good progress through last year, but the gap wasn’t as big as it is now,” he said. “Do I believe we can close the gap at some stage? Yes, but I think it’s quite hard with the concept we have.”
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