Lewis Hamilton voiced relief after enjoying a positive opening day of action at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The seven-time champion ended the second practice session at the top of the timesheet, narrowly besting team-mate Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s maiden F1 campaign with Ferrari has largely been filled with struggle, particularly with his one-lap qualifying pace.<\/p>\n
However, the first day of on-track activities in Baku offered a moment of comfort for the Ferrari team, who is still searching for its first win of the season.<\/p>\n
When asked if he felt it was a positive day on track for the team, Hamilton replied: \u201cIt was, thank the Lord.<\/p>\n
\u201cFP1 was a bit of a mess. This is a circuit where you have to have mega confidence on the brakes and I had some problems on the brakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery track I\u2019m going to, it\u2019s the first time driving the Ferrari at that circuit. Acclimatising to that is not easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made some changes going into FP2. The brakes were working perfectly and I was able to make a good advantage in terms of gaining on the brakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Hamilton highlighted Ferrari is making steps in the right direciton, he erred on the side of caution when asked what it meant for the bigger picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really happy to see the progress, it goes to show the direction we\u2019ve been going as a team,\u201d Hamilton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really grateful for everyone\u2019s patience, everyone is pushing so hard. We\u2019re starting to see the progress come through.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a practice day, so let\u2019s not go too far. I just want to say I\u2019m really grateful to see everyone push, the support I\u2019ve been getting back from everyone at the factory, everyone here.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir patience, their support every weekend, just lifting me up. The guys in the garage, all of our marketing team, they\u2019re really making such a big difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been beaming from the energy from the Tifosi at hte last race. I\u2019m hoping to take that energy they gave us all the way through the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton voiced relief after enjoying a positive opening day of action at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-155675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}