News Details

Hamilton pleased with Mercedes performance on soft compound

After finishing fastest in both of Friday's Free Practice sessions at the Red Bull Ring, Lewis Hamilton says that he feels more comfortable on the soft tyres – the hardest compound that Pirelli had brought to the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Hamilton led his Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team-mate Valtteri Bottas in both sessions, as the reigning champions continued their blistering pace from Circuit Paul Ricard last week. The Brit clocked a day's best time of a 1 minute 04.579 seconds on the soft tyres, improving on his morning benchmark by three-tenths. The 33-year-old reflected on a 'pretty straightforward' day and, whilst he prefers the harder compound, admits that the...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Hamilton and Mercedes remain on top in FP2

Lewis Hamilton topped free practice two for the Austrian Grand Prix ahead...
8y ago from GPBlog.com

Hamilton stays on top in FP2 as Mercedes dominate...

class="left relative"> Share Tweet Share Share Email...
8y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Hamilton dominates Austrian GP practice

Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton proved the man to beat in Friday practice...
8y ago from SpeedCafe.com

Italian GP tyre compound choices confirmed by Pirelli

Pirelli have confirmed that Formula 1 teams will have the Supersoft, soft...
8y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Scott McLaughlin: IndyCar has ‘incredible'...

Scott McLaughlin started racing in the NTT IndyCar Series in 2021, coming...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

What referee was caught telling Arsenal star in the...

Footage of match referee Andy Madley’s half-time tunnel conversation...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Slavia Prague vs Arsenal Prediction and Betting Tips |...

Slavia Prague host last season's beaten finalists Arsenal in a UEFA...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'This is the detail we're looking at' - Could...

Jamie Carragher and Seamus Coleman analyse whether Liverpool could have...
4h ago from SkySports.com

Merse: Arsenal showed mark of champions at Anfield

After Arsenal moved three points clear at the top of the Premier League...
8h ago from SkySports.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.