Lewis Hamilton believes one thing was improper together with his automobile over a single lap throughout Friday follow for this weekend’s British Grand Prix, however is assured his group will discover a answer in time for qualifying.

Hamilton completed the second follow in fifteenth place and 1.2s off the tempo of Max Verstappen’s quickest time after struggling for efficiency all through Friday follow.

Over longer runs to simulate how the automobile will carry out in Sunday’s race, Hamilton’s efficiency regarded extra promising, so he’s hopeful there shall be an apparent repair to enhance his automobile efficiency in time for Saturday’s qualifying session.

“Automotive smart, we’re battling the identical factor more often than not — it is a powerful automobile to drive,” Hamilton stated. “It doesn’t matter what we do to set-up, it continues to be a tricky automobile to drive.

“On a single lap I did not really feel any enchancment between tyre compounds, which exhibits that one thing is improper. We’re lacking one thing.

“On the long term it did not appear to be too dangerous, in order that’s a optimistic at the least.”

Mercedes’ lack of efficiency on Friday was underlined by Hamilton’s teammate George Russell ending the session twelfth.

Hamilton stated the group’s reserve driver, Mick Schumacher, will work on the automobile’s issues in a single day within the Mercedes’ simulator to search out an enchancment on the setups the 2 drivers ran on Friday.

“Me and George have been simply speaking and he is a method, he is over right here with the set-up, I am over right here,” Hamilton defined. “He was like ‘I am considering of coming to the place you’re however your lap time is then gradual’ and I am like ‘I used to be considering of coming to the place you’re’.

“However we’ll attempt to work on it tonight and Mick will do some work on the sim tonight. Hopefully we’ll give you one thing for tomorrow.”