Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team - 2023 Lewis Hamilton Driver Cap

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The new parts will be fitted only to Lando Norris' car in Austria, before team-mate Oscar Piastri receives them at Silverstone.

Hamilton said such a cycle of dominance was something he enjoyed with Mercedes from 2014-2020, and emphasised his comments were "not aimed at one person". Red Bull are this year facing an extra restriction on permitted development as punishment for exceeding the budget cap in 2021. He said: "In my 17 years of being here, even before I got here, you would see periods of dominance and it continues to happen. He added: "We weren't talking about that when he was winning his championships, right? So I don't think we should now." Lewis Hamilton is currently fourth in the 2023 drivers' championship Hamilton 'still not able to go to the limit'It's always hard to have a clear picture of competitiveness at pre-season testing - and even more so with only three days of data available. But he added that its behaviour still needed to be improved and that he was still not able to drive it on the limit. The changes and direction we're going has enabled me to start to explore that more and have more confidence in pushing closer to the limit, but I am still not able to get to the limit so we still have to make some more changes. It would be cool to see in the next period if we don't have huge bands of time when one team is ahead because we want to see better racing."

Verstappen has won six of the eight races so far this season and his Red Bull team all of them. He leads the championship by 69 points heading into this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix. The 2023 Mercedes-AMG F1 teamwear collection embodies the team's commitment to innovation and excellence. The collection is focused on performance using cutting edge fabrics and materials. As worn by Sir Lewis Hamilton during the Formula 1 season in 2023. With the way it's going, it will continue to happen over and over again, and I don't think we need that in the sport. It's our first upgrade of the season, really, for performance. The upgrade in Baku was not a performance deliverer. This is the updated version of what we had there. I have confidence it's a decent step."We didn't have the smoothest winter test in Bahrain," admitted Wolff. "We had some reliability problems and struggled with the car set-up on day two. Hamilton said upgrades to his Mercedes in recent races were "a step in the right direction" and that the car was "starting to feel like a real racing car". McLaren said before the season even started they had missed their development targets with this year's car and would have a difficult start to the campaign. This was all meant to come for Silverstone, so the fact we have some of it, not even all of it, is already going to be a good step forward.

Of course exciting ones as well, but not a lot of time to look into things and assess them and keep everything under control. It is going to be tough, but we still think it's the best thing to do. I am looking forward to it. Mercedes have more new parts coming for the British Grand Prix next weekend, but at the Red Bull Ring this weekend a lot of attention will be on McLaren, who are introducing what their team boss Andrea Stella has called a "milestone" development.

Their first upgrade was at the fourth race of the season, and Austria marks the start of a three-step development to be introduced over the next three. If everyone had a time [to start on the next car], no-one has a head start and then it's a real race," he said.