Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes must make progress with their car quickly after seeing the performance of their rivals in Bahrain.
After finishing on the podium in Bahrain after the late retirement of the two Red Bull drivers, Hamilton said they cannot rely on the same happening again.
“I don’t currently feel too stressed but I want to get in the fight as soon as possible,” said Hamilton in response to a question from RaceFans. “The last race was obviously an amazing feeling for us given where we thought we were going to be to come out with the result we did. But we can’t rely every weekend on that to happen so we need to do move forwards as fast as we can.”
Hamilton said he is “realistic” about the challenge the team faces having started the season six-tenths of as second off the pace. “We have issues, we’re fighting to fix them.
“I think there’s a lot of potential within our car and we’re just trying to work as hard as we can to rectify them as quick as…