Instead, Toto Wolff’s outfit are locked into a battle with McLaren for the title of the third-fastest car with just two points separating the two teams in the standings. A strong performance from George Russell in Bahrain contributed most of those points too, with Hamilton sitting down in P9 in the Drivers’ Championship.
After a difficult outing in Jeddah, Hamilton made his thoughts on the W15 known. “It’s definitely tough, but we’ll get our heads down and we’ll keep working away,” he told Sky Sports F1. “I know everyone at the factory is pushing as hard as they can, but we’ve definitely got to make some big changes.
We haven’t made big enough changes perhaps. You look at the three teams ahead of us, they still have different concepts to where we are in some areas. So we’ve got some performance to add, that’s for sure.”
