BAKU, Azerbaijan -- After spending the majority of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend off the pace, Lewis Hamilton is confident he understands what the issue was.
The Mercedes driver showed impressive pace during Friday practice but was unable to convert that into qualifying or race pace as fluctuations in the temperature left him struggling to get the best from his Pirelli tyres. But after his engineers spent the past week analysing the reasons for his loss in performance over the weekend, Hamilton says he enters this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix armed with a series of potential fixes.
"They're short-term things," he explained when asked about the nature of the issues.