‘I’ll be more aggressive this year’ – Hamilton sends warning to Verstappen

‘I’ll be more aggressive this year’ – Hamilton sends warning to Verstappen

 

 

 
Hamilton and Verstappen came to blows on several occasions as they engaged in an intense season-long battle for the 2021 world championship, with Verstappen eventually prevailing to win his maiden title in controversial circumstances in Abu Dhabi. The seven-time world champion often backed out of duels with Verstappen in order to avoid contact, though the pair were involved in big es at Silverstone and Monza when both drivers refused to concede position. Asked whether he has considered changing his wheel-to-wheel approach in order to combat Verstappen’s more aggressive stance, Hamilton replied: “I will be a more aggressive driver this year. You’ll see.”Hamilton and Mercedes appear to find themselves on the back foot coming into this weekend’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix following a difficult pre-season. Both drivers were unable to extract consistent performance out of the W13 while Mercedes also seemed to struggle with porpoising more than other teams. Related Verstappen sets pace in FP2 as Hamilton struggles to ninth F1 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix – Free Practice Results (2)3027909.0064.jpg “I’m hoping my guys have come up with some sort of solution going into this weekend and when I get in the car today it feels better,” Hamilton said.“But I know there’s not a huge change in such a short space of time. So we’ll still most likely have some of the problems that we had last week. “Mentally, it’s just about making sure you are extracting everything in every other area. All I can do is control how I’m performing in the car, just trying to be positive and knowing that we are all working together in the team. “It is the best team and I’m very grateful for the group of people I have behind me, so confident we can make it through somehow.” Related FIA Formula 3 2022 – Bahrain – Full Qualifying FIA doesn’t need to release full Abu Dhabi F1 report – VerstappenVerstappen sarcastically suggested Mercedes would finish “dead last” this season because they have developed an “awful car”, in what appeared to be a swipe at the reigning world champions repeatedly downplaying its prospects for 2022. “I think they’ll be dead last,” Verstappen said. “According to their comments – I think they have an awful car, and they’ve had that already since 2017 in pre-season testing. “4“No, we’ll find out. But they for sure will be competitive.”  

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