Lewis Hamilton praises engineers who developed DAS: "I'm proud of the guys"

Lewis Hamilton has praised the Mercedes engineers for the way that they came up with the DAS system. The reigning champion believes that the team are on top of their game and that there is no level of complacency in the team despite their success in recent years. 

“I think I'm just genuinely proud of the guys,” said Hamilton to Motorsport.com. “I think our whole mentality continues to progress and improve.

“Over the years, we've got more and more open-minded. You know, engineers often are quite close-minded. They are used to doing the same thing they've done in the past in a safe and reliable way because it's worked before.

“So the last couple of years it’s about really pushing, more so on the track, but also pushing the guys into areas where they are not so comfortable."

Mercedes have dominated the sport since 2014 and other teams might have been happy with the success and called it a day. However, the silver arrows have taken it up a notch and are looking to remain successful in the future. 

“We discovered things that we would never have if we had never done that. It was awesome to break them open them up to new ideas.

“That is what has also enabled us to move on to do great things. It's really great to see them not doing the same things as everyone else, thinking out of the box, and it is really inspiring to see them innovate ahead of everyone else.”

Mercedes will be very hard to beat and it will be interesting to see how much faster the DAS system makes them.