“I’m only a bit gobsmacked, truthfully,” stated Hamilton after securing his shock P1. “I’m a bit shocked by it. I didn’t know after we would get to this place.
“After final weekend, it was a troublesome begin to the week and I got here right here with aggression and simply wished to enter the weekend and get the automobile into a extremely good spot.
“I began out straightaway with a greater feeling within the automobile and I can’t consider that we’re on the entrance, forward of a McLaren which has been so quick all through winter testing, the primary race, and even in the present day.”
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Assessing his lap, he added: “My first sector was actually, actually sturdy, I believe that’s the place I made most of my enchancment on that lap, however simply little increments by means of the entire place.
“There’s nonetheless time to search out, for positive, which I’ll attempt to guarantee that I apply to the following Qualifying session we exit in. It’s wonderful to see the primary as you cease and to be within the crimson automobile, it’s fairly unbelievable.”
