Hamilton ready for a ‘deep dive tonight’ to find more pace in Japan

Hi Lewis. The radio message of no confidence in the car, we've spoken to Diego actually and he said that Resurf is saying there's things they can do overnight, are you confident you'll get a car you can be confident in for tomorrow? Well I mean we work on it, I think it's just the way of this track you know, it's a massively demanding circuit, it's amazing to drive but getting the right balance and I think interestingly there's something, I think it's just something in how this car is set up, kind of some similarities to what I felt last year so we're just working on that. So I'm confident overnight we can find something and get it to a better place but it's an awesome circuit but you need to be able to sit on the rear and be comfortable that it's going to stay with you and today I had the snaps, I just can't seem to match the other guys so I think we'll do a deep dive tonight, we'll get some interesting readings from the simulator and yeah but I feel like I've got a bit of a north star, it's just how do we get there and so we're going to try and figure that out. Must be nice to have a direction though at least, a lot of people struggled today though so how different is the feeling around this circuit, as you say it's a fantastic one to drive, how different is the feeling this year in these cars? No it doesn't feel, as I said it doesn't feel massively different, it feels pretty good, the track is awesome, they resurfaced it, we've got beautiful weather today, the fans have been incredible already as they always are on the first day of testing here. It doesn't really feel massively different to last year if I'm really honest, which is probably why we're in the similar position as we were last year so we've got to figure out how to unlock, there is more potential in the car it's just figuring out how to unlock that so that's what we're going to focus on now.