Lewis Hamilton has raved about the \u201cunbelievable\u201d improvements that Ferrari made to his car over the Dutch Grand Prix weekend, but his team mate Charles Leclerc was contrastingly left searching for answers after he endured a \u201cless than ideal\u201d session.<\/p>\n
The Briton didn\u2019t enjoy a smooth start to Round 12, having felt uncomfortable<\/a> in Sprint Qualifying before he failed to progress during the 24-lap event and came home in P7.<\/p>\n As a result, the Briton and Ferrari<\/a> opted to tweak his set-up with the target of improving during Qualifying<\/a>, which would be crucial as overtaking is more of a challenge at the Circuit Zandvoort<\/a>. The adjustments worked and Hamilton<\/a> wound up P5, just over three-tenths adrift of George Russell<\/a>\u2019s pole position time.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so much happier with the car, honestly,\u201d the seven-time World Champion explained. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy. We changed a lot of things, but it doesn\u2019t really look that big. But the difference it makes in the car is unbelievable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe difficult thing is I started FP1 with good confidence, I lost it all in [Sprint] Qualifying, and all through the [Sprint] race I had no confidence in the balance \u2013 the car was constantly breaking away from me.<\/p>\n \u201cThen I go into Qualifying and the car is there\u2026 the balance is there at least, so I was building and building and building. Some more laps and I think we could have probably done better, but I think ultimately the tyres were the issue for us.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Hamilton was left feeling \u201ca lot more optimistic\u201d about Ferrari\u2019s chances on race day, Leclerc<\/a> did not share his belief, even though he was only marginally off the pace set by his team mate in Q3.<\/p>\n