Lewis Hamilton is seems to be convinced that he can’t win the record eighth world title at Mercedes.

Red Bull is far ahead of the grid in the 2024 season, according to seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. The Englishman, who is set to join Ferrari for the 2025 Season, is still was that the German giants may catch Red Bull this year.

Hamilton who lost its 8 world championship in 2021 to Max Verstappen doesn’t seem to carrying the same optimism after Behrain pre-season testing.

After completing 123 laps on Thursday at the Bahrain International Circuit, Hamilton declared that his new vehicle was a definite improvement over its unreliable predecessor.

However, he does not anticipate that the team’s results will improve right away. Hamilton remarked that the team still had time to solve the issues but there is a long way to go.

The cars are still stiff and bumpy as we know, this generation of car. But the team have done a great job over the winter...We still have time to find...I think Red Bull clearly are out in the distance. But I think it’s a good platform to work from this year.

As Reported by RaceFans

Hamilton is happy that the Mercedes crew, unlike in the previous two seasons, listened to his advice and made the changes that the car desperately needed. But those aren’t sufficient to catch Verstappen in the Adrrain Newey-designed beast RB20.

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Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin clarified that his team still had “more work to do on a single lap” when Formula One returns to Sakhir on Thursday for free practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. In a Mercedes social media debrief, Shovlin said, ” We’re still trying to fine-tune the setup’.