Hamilton still low on confidence: 'This is the result you're going to see'

Lewis Hamilton will have to do without updates for the rest of the 2021 Formula 1 season. While Max Verstappen gets one update after another at Red Bull Racing, Hamilton has to watch the gap in the championship widen.

Hamilton's team boss revealed that Mercedes would bring no more updates in 2021, and with Red Bull currently being the strongest team, that's obviously not what you want to hear as a driver.

No upgrades for Mercedes

Hamilton is certainly not without a chance for the world title, but he does need the support of his team to be able to compete with Verstappen. Mercedes has made the choice to focus on 2022, but Hamilton would prefer to compete for the title this year.

''I’m not going to question the team’s logic and how they got through with their process. As I said, I would love to have… Give us an upgrade, we would love an upgrade, but I don’t think it’s in the pipeline at the moment. We’re down on a few areas,'' Hamilton revealed in the press conference after the Styrian Grand Prix.

Hamilton is desperate

''It’s been close at the beginning of the season and if we were both – Red Bull and us – had the same performance as we did in those first four races then perhaps it would be a little more exciting, but as I said, they’ve taken a decent step forwards but we will work as hard as we can to manoeuvre around it but in terms of baseline performance this is what we’ve got. I think we did a decent job today but it’s probably going to get harder if Sergio has a better weekend, but we’re going to keep pushing''.

However, Hamilton is far from giving up. ''Well, I don’t accept anything. I think we’ve still got many races ahead of us and we’ve got to keep pushing. We’re World Champions and that’s what we can, definitely, improve if we have put our minds to it. If we’re not going to develop and improve our car for the rest of the year, this is the result you’re going to see, because, as I said, they’ve really eked out performance in these last few races, wherever it’s been, whether it’s been in France with the engine or the new wing, whichever it is,'' concludes the seven-time world champion.