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Hamilton "tried something completely different" in Abu Dhabi
Lewis Hamilton has confirmed that he experimented with a different set-up approach this weekend at Abu Dhabi, in an unsuccessful attempt to halt Nico Rosberg’s pole position streak.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Nov 28, 2015, 3:18 PM
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Hamilton has complained since Singapore that his car's balance hasn't been to his liking, as changes were made there during Mercedes's worst grand prix weekend of the season.
He tried a new approach this weekend in the Abu Dhabi season finale, but it wasn't enough to halt Rosberg's run of poles.
"It's just a balance thing," said Hamilton of his deficit. "It's been different for a few races now. I did my best; we worked as hard as we could with the engineers to try and go around it, try something different – we've tried something completely different this weekend and… so-so.
"Generally it gets a bit better in the race. I'm struggling on the edge with the car, I'm a lot more comfortable in the beginning [of races].
"I said coming into this weekend trying to make some changes – disadvantages myself by taking something off my car that was a benefit, but at the end of the day I wasn't good enough.
"I'd much rather be on pole, of course, and I was working as hard as I could towards that, but Nico did a great job."
Still positive for the race
Hamilton believes he can end the season on a high with another victory tomorrow to cap his title-winning season in style.
"I'm going to try as hard as I can to get a good start tomorrow, I've got a lot of British flags here, a lot of support, so I'll see what I can do from there," he said.
"It is tough to overtake here, as although you've got the DRS zone down the back straight, you can't follow [closely] through Turns 2 and 3. So the gap gets pulled out there."
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