Motor racing: Hamilton says rule changes were intended to peg back Mercedes

REUTERS: Formula One's rule changes for 2021 were intended to rein in Mercedes, seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Saturday.

"It's no secret that what the changes have... of course they've been done to peg us back," said Hamilton, who qualified second ahead of team mate Valtteri Bottas. "We had the changes of course last year to our engine to do the same thing," said Hamilton, referring to a late-season ruling that stopped teams from switching modes for qualifying and the race."But that's OK, we love a challenge and we don't look down on these things, we just work hard to be the best we can. And that's what we'll do.

"We couldn’t run our suspensions and settings in the way that Red Bull does and so we need to do the best out of it and tune the car to what we have available," said the Austrian.

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