Lewis Hamilton has paid credit to Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport for fixing the issues that appeared in the W08 EQ Power+ over the course of the 2017 season. Mercedes admitted that last year's car had tendencies to be a 'diva', despite securing both world championships for a fourth year in succession. Hamilton completed 84 laps, setting his fastest time of the day on mediums tyres, a 1 minute 19.575, enough for ninth fastest on the penultimate day of winter testing – five-hundredths of a second behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The Brit praised a 'very productive' week for Mercedes, even though the Silver Arrows have not headed the timing screens since the final day of the first...
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