Canadian GP: Lewis Hamilton's five-word dig at Mercedes car

Ahead of his post-race interview on Friday, Lewis Hamilton was heard describing his Mercedes as “so bad.”

After a disappointing P13 finish at the second practice session of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, Hamilton described the car as “a disaster.”

Speaking to Sky Sports, he said: “Nothing we do to this car generally seems to work. We are trying different set-ups.

“Me and George went with much different set-ups in this P2 just to see if one way works and one way doesn’t. I’ll wait to hear how it felt for him, but for me it was a disaster.

“It’s like the car is getting worse, it’s getting more and more unhappy the more we do it.”

The seven-time world champion is currently 88 points behind Drivers’ Championship leader Max Verstappen and has admitted that he doubts there is much more that can be done for this year’s car.

He continued: “We will keep working on it. It is what it is. I think this is the car for the year.

“We will have to tough it out and work hard on building a better car for next year. We have tried loads and loads of things and ticked them all off. Those ones don’t work, so we have to go and find something else. We are way off, but it’s to be expected with this car.”

The Mercedes team have continued to have their campaign jeopardised by porpoising, which had already left Hamilton in considerable discomfort in Azerbaijan last week.

Hamilton went on to explain that he does not see the car being able to compete with Ferrari and Red Bull at the Circuit Giles Villeneuve for the rest of the weekend as he had already been forced to relearn the Montreal track due to not being able to ride the kerbs as much as usual.

He said: “One touch of the kerb and the thing goes flying, it’s so stiff. Here you need to be