Hamilton was asked what he knows about the extent of Ferrari’s super straight-line performance:

It’s not an assumption. You’ve seen in qualifying they’re three tenths or whatever it is, six tenths a lap on the straights they were able to pull out. And then in the race I know that all of a sudden they pick up a lot of pace in some straights.

But that’s the name of the game. They’ve clearly done a great job with their power unit so it used to be a point where Mercedes were ahead in that area by a good chunk and we’ve got work to do there, they are ahead of us at the moment.