Frustrations grow for Hamilton: "Worst I have ever felt in any car here"
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Lewis Hamilton has a phenomenal record in the Canadian Grand Prix with seven wins and six pole positions. But he will have to perform a miracle to add to those statistics this weekend with the Mercedes car off the pace. Frustrations are growing in the back of the Mercedes garage, with Hamilton evening saying "this car is so bad" to his mechanics seconds before his interview with Sky Sports.
Getting worse
Hamilton has only recorded better results in the British and Hungarian Grands Prix. He knows Montreal like the back of his hand and was hoping to get a better car by trying different things. But the British driver acknowledges that whatever the team try just doesn't work.
"Pretty much like every Friday for us trying lots of different things. An experimental floor on my side, that didn't work. Nothing we are doing to this car seems to work. We have been trying different setups. Me and George [Russell] were running much different setups in FP2 just to see if one-way works and one doesn't. I will wait to hear but for me it was a disaster. It's like the car is getting worse. Getting more and more unhappy with the more we do to it. We will keep working on it," Hamilton said.
Hamilton will work with his engineers overnight to try and make improvements with his car, though he isn't confident admitting "it's the worst that I have ever felt in any car here" and "it's just a monumental fight the whole time to keep it out of the wall". After FP2, the rain fell extremely hard and the forecast suggests it might rain through the night and into qualifying which could end up playing into Mercedes' hands.