The season-opening Rolex Australian Grand Prix takes consign on Sunday, March 17 in Melbourne and will be ex-world champion Hamilton’s first while toggle from McLaren to the Mercedes AMG Petronas players. Hamilton, the 28-year-old F1 racer from Hertfordshire, pinnacle the timesheets on the penultimate day of testing approximately the track de Catalunya in Barcelona.
Mercedes colleague Nico Rosberg then went quickest on the final day of difficult in Spain. The Mercedes F1 W04 finished 5,224 km over the three pre-season test assemblies, with Nico and Lewis totalling 2,640km and 2,584km correspondingly.
Stevenage-born Hamilton said: “There’s still a lot of work in front of us to get to where we desire to be but the team is responsibility a great job. “The dependability, the mileage and the step-by-step development that we have achieved through the three tests are all very hopeful.
“Whilst we’ve been hub on our own presentation, we absolutely haven’t seen the full possible of our contestant yet, so it’s difficult to forecast where we might be.” Rosberg added: “We have attained a lot of mileage and I can feel that the equilibrium of the car is good.