Lewis Hamilton‘s Mercedes was plagued with a plethora of issues, but he says the W15 is still “a platform that we can start adding bricks to”.

Lewis Hamilton finished the Bahrain Grand Prix in P7, however this was not a real reflection of the W15’s performance, as the car was plagued with a plethora of issues.

“For a while my battery was dead, so down the straights I was just derating so I lost a lot of ground on the McLarens,” Lewis explained after the race.

“I was fixing that for some laps – that took a good 10 laps and then after that I was just really trying to get back on it and catch up once we got that fixed.

“Then there was a bit of overheating with the brakes, but generally the performance was so-so.”

Lewis also explained the issues he experienced with his seat.

“My seat starting moving, my left side dropped and so it was moving through the braking zones.”

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Ultimately, Lewis says the car felt better in the closing stages of the race, but it was too late.

“I was catching at the end and feeling racy. But the gap was so big, I lost so much at the beginning of the race.

“I feel good, I don’t feel downbeat. It was a super-average race.

“But what I feel is that the last couple of years, we have had all these problems and we have spent several races trying to undo all those problems, trying to figure out what those problems were as opposed to now, we have a platform that we can start adding bricks to.

“So now it is a building process from here and I think we’re a great team,” Hamilton concluded.