“The good thing is that the other teams are starting to get interested in me
and the balance was decent as well; it didnt feel like we could squeeze much more out of that.
He’s scored 19 points to the Aussie’s five with Ricciardo’s early-season woes leading to speculation he may not see out the season.
With just five minutes of the session gone and plenty of learning to do on a dry track
Hamilton was the first of the frontrunners to try a set of slick tyres – putting on a set of mediums to see how his tyres would react.