F1: Low Key Day For Hamilton At Spa

Lewis Hamilton has put in some spectacular drives in the wet over the years, but today in Spa he was pretty subdued as he used the day to gain a little more knowledge about McLaren's latest updates.

Hamilton ran only a handful of laps in the morning, when he was only 15th, and didn't do a flying lap in FP2. However, he said it was a useful day.

"It's been incredibly wet today, lots of aquaplaning, lots of rivers on the track," said Hamilton. "You just had to be very wary of all the aquaplaning that was possible. There was no real benefit bombing around today except for trying to find out whether the updates were working, so we just did a couple of installation laps to check that, and also to check how if the tires would switch on, how difficult they are to switch on in the wet.

"We know that our rear wing that is especially for here and for Monza – that we would have some problems at the beginning, as everyone will do. As you see some people do flow-viz with the yellow paint they put on the rear wing. So we just had to do some modifications just to make sure that it was working perfectly, and it is. We won't see until tomorrow just how good whatever upgrades we have are.
"I think there's always things to learn, so it wasn't a waste of time, the laps we did. There wasn't much point in bolting around lap after lap after lap. We believe it's going to be dry tomorrow, and on Sunday, and so we just went out to do installation laps to run down the car, basically."

Hamilton says he's not too worried about having only a dry FP3 session on Saturday morning to prepare for both qualifying and the race.

"It's a challenge, everyone's in the same boat. It's going to be very interesting with the green track in the morning, trying to find the best set-up with only the couple of runs that we'll have in the short space of time tomorrow morning. But hopefully our simulator has helped us, so we're best prepared."

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