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After Mercedes topped Canadian Grand Prix FP2, James Allison says “it’s nice to be at the front rather than the back, but I don’t think you can read too much into it”.
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished the Canadian Grand Prix FP2 in P1 and P2, respectively.
However, despite the seemingly great performance, the team’s technical director James Allison warns not to read too much into the results.
“It’s nice to be at the front rather than the back, but I don’t think you can read too much into it,” Allison told Sky Sports.
“Thinking that this rain was coming a little sooner than it came, we ran long run at the beginning of the session and our short runs at the end, and everyone else did it vice versa.
“So we did our runs when the track was at its best.”
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Allison added there’s still a lot of work to do on the W14 ahead of qualifying.
“I don’t know whether it came over the team radio, but George did his lap and got where he got, and then said: ‘Well it didn’t feel very good!’
“So I think there’s plenty more to improve on the car before we get to qualifying. All you can read into it is that the car is in ok shape.
“But it’s not deserving of a one-two, because we just weren’t running at the same time [as other teams],” the Briton concluded.
