Hamilton wants to repeat podium success with no sim plan for Canada

In the build-up to the Miami Grand Prix, Hamilton spent time in the simulator. However, once he got to the track, it proved ineffective, as there was no correlation, the Briton explained. In Miami, Hamilton eventually finished sixth on Sunday after his teammate Charles Leclerc was handed a 20-second time penalty. He will therefore change his approach for the Canadian Grand Prix, which will also be a Sprint weekend.

"On a sprint weekend, for example, you've only got practice one, you don't really want to veer off from your setup too too far like with a big suspension change, and so you stay with it. Then you make a change going it's qualifying and you only got six laps to get on top of it. So in an ideal world I should have started where Charles was at the beginning of the weekend on P1 and I think we would have just had a stronger weekend from there," Hamilton explained to GPblog, among others.

He added: "So I'm not gonna go on the simulator between now and the next race. I'll still go and hold meetings at the factory and stuff, but I'm just going to back away from it for a little bit and see. Because when we went to China, I had the best weekend without the sim."