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Lewis Hamilton might have been hard on himself after the Canadian Grand Prix, but Toto Wolff says “in FP3 Lewis put up a lap that was out of this world, and then his long run was stratospheric, galactical”.
Although Lewis Hamilton went from P7 to P4 at the Canadian Grand Prix, afterwards he described his performance in the race as “poor”.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, however, praised Lewis’ performance across the whole weekend.
“I think when you finish third and fourth, from where we have been coming from, then it is a positive race,” the Austrian said.
“Third and fourth is so much better than we had previously in the last few races, so that is good, but I think both drivers saw that there was more up for grabs.
“We could have gained a position or two, and that is why there is a kind of negative sentiment, but if you would have given them third and fourth before the weekend, they probably would have taken it.
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“I mean in FP3 Lewis put up a lap that was out of this world, and then his long run was stratospheric, galactical.
“There was a lot of pace but in qualifying, we seem to be very strong at the beginning and then lose a little bit of performance.
“Maybe we could have optimised it at the end, but the car was very quick.
“But this track is very different to everything else, it is an outlier, so hopefully we can demonstrate that we have found genuine pace [in Spain],” Wolff concluded.
