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'We weren't quick enough today', admits Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton was forced to concede that Mercedes just didn't seem to have their usual dominant pace and power in Baku on Friday. Hamilton was fourth fastest in FP1, and slipped to fifth in the later free practice session. More worryingly, he was eight tenths off the pace set by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. "Overall, we weren't quick enough today," he admitted. "Both Red Bull and Ferrari seem to be ahead of us at the moment. "We've got some work to do. I'm going to be knocking on the doors of all the engineers overnight, so that we can hopefully make the right changes." Mercedes' technical director James Allison was in agreement with his driver. "We've got a...
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