After seven races finishing behind his new team-mate George Russell, Lewis Hamilton finally had reason to smile after an excellent drive to his second podium of 2022 at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday.
The turnaround in mood from Baku last week was enormous. In fact, the change in demeanour was significant even from Friday practice in Montreal.
Finally getting the measure of Russell in both qualifying and the race and the near-eradication of the dreaded bouncing and porpoising that has afflicted them so far in 2022 has seemingly put him in a happy place.
Mercedes go to Silverstone in two weeks only 40 points behind Ferrari in the standings and with (so far) bullet-proof reliability.
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