Red Bull is far ahead of the grid in the 2024 season, according to seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. The Englishman, who is set to join Ferrari for the 2025 Season, is still was that the German giants may catch Red Bull this year. Hamilton who lost its 8 world championship in 2021 to Max Verstappen doesn’t seem to carrying the same optimism after Behrain pre-season testing.

After completing 123 laps on Thursday at the Bahrain International Circuit, Hamilton declared that his new vehicle was a definite improvement over its unreliable predecessor. However, he does not anticipate that the team’s results will improve right away. Hamilton remarked that the team still had time to solve the issues but there is a long way to go.

The cars are still stiff and bumpy as we know, this generation of car. But the team have done a great job over the winter…We still have time to find…I think Red Bull clearly are out in the distance. But I think it’s a good platform to work from this year.As Reported by RaceFans

Hamilton is happy that the Mercedes crew, unlike in the previous two seasons, listened to his advice and made the changes that the car desperately needed. But those aren’t sufficient to catch Verstappen in the Adrrain Newey-designed beast RB20.

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Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin clarified that his team still had “more work to do on a single lap” when Formula One returns to Sakhir on Thursday for free practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. In a Mercedes social media debrief, Shovlin said, ” We’re still trying to fine-tune the setup’.

Mike Elliott and Toto Wolff (Via IMAGO)

Shovlin also stated that Throughout the test the team had made good steps in our understanding of the car. Mercedes’s next target is to set is to pick through the results and put together the best package to take into the race weekend. Shovlin remarked that it is clear that we are in a much better position than 12 months ago though. Shovlin also said that the driver’s feedback has also started to come positive.

But Mercedes needs to find a good replacement for Hamilton position’s as he will be leaving them at the end of the 2024 Season. Although there is a list of drivers who could replace Hamilton and could bring their experience in the development of the Mercedes. Mercedes’s target for this year would also be to catch the space of RedBull. It might also help them to catch better drivers at the end of the 2024 Season.