Lewis Hamilton says he is not too concerned by his poor Formula 1 qualifying form ahead of this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix.
The 39-year-old has been out-qualified by his Mercedes teammate George Russell all but once in 2024.
Only once has a teammate out-qualified Hamilton across a season in his F1 career which was Nico Rosberg in 2014.
“I wouldn’t say it’s not been a priority but the whole weekend has been the priority to improve everywhere,” Hamilton said ahead of this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix.
“Particularly since the end of last year and all this year has been pretty bad on the Saturday.
“I will continue to work on it. So far, I haven’t got it to a great place. There’s plenty of races to sort it out. There’s plenty of time to iron out all the creases in my performance and in the car’s.
“I am not getting too hung up on it. My race performance is still decent so fortunately I can fall back on that for now.”
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Mercedes have endured a difficult start to the campaign, failing to finish on the podium in any of the first seven races, marking their worst start since 2011 when they failed to finish on the podium that year.
Hamilton revealed Mercedes have no new upgrades for this weekend but stayed that he is feeling excited heading to Monaco.
“Well we don’t have any upgrades this weekend,” the seven-time world champion added. “We had the package spaced over the last two races. We have our highest downforce level which everyone has here and we have an evolved wing.
“Otherwise, we don’t know where we’re going to be this weekend. I am definitely feeling more excited about it compared to the previous two cars as those two weren’t so great. This one’s a real work in progress so hopefully it should be a lot better here and than it was last year.”
Hamilton is a three-timer winner in Monaco, however his last victory came in 2019 when he finished ahead of then-Ferrerari driver Sebastian Vettel and then-Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.
