Jenson Button is confident that Mercedes will give Lewis Hamilton “equal treatment” for the duration of the F1 2024 season after George Russell was given the the team’s only new front wing for the Monaco Grand Prix.It marked the seventh time in eight races in the F1 2024 season that Russell has started ahead of Hamilton on the grid.
“But once we get to qualifying, I don’t understand. I already know automatically that I’m going to lose two tenths going into qualifying.“I’m not driving any differently, the laps were really great. I’m just lacking something.” Appearing in his capacity as a Sky F1 pundit in Monaco, however, Hamilton’s former McLaren team-mate Button has argued that Mercedes will continue to offer equal treatment to their drivers until the end of F1 2024.
“Maybe they won’t tell him what the parts are and how much quicker they’re going to be, but they will give them equal treatment.” He said: “I think what I’ve always tried to do as a team principal, and all of us at Mercedes, is to be transparent and fair – and nothing’s going to change in that respect in 2024.
“I just want to make sure – we want to make sure – that this is a successful season – a successful season for both drivers and a successful season for Mercedes all of us will give our utmost to achieve that.