You just like all the haters are reading far to much in the the tricks comment.
Hamilton's comment, which comes weeks after incidents at the French and British Grands Prix caused technical director James Allison to question whether they were "deliberate or incompetence", was seized upon by the media and at the subsequent press conference Hamilton was asked to explain.
Asked if by "tricks" he was implying that
Ferrari was bending the rules, he replied: "No, we all have trick things on our cars. Trick is just a word for something special, I guess."
"Something special that's legal," he was asked.
"Just something special," he replied. "I don't know. I don't know what's on their car so I couldn't tell you either way."
"I'm not saying that there's anything illegal on..." he added, "I'm just saying we all have something trick. There's probably something trick on…
"Trick is just something that helps you bring that extra bit of performance," he continued. "That's all I mean. I don't mean anything to it so please don't read into it and please don't twist my words and say that I say they're doing anything illegal because they're not. They just out-performed us today and we've got to work harder, but there are things that they have on the car that we might not have on the car and vice versa and we've got to try and find out what and improve on that. That's it.
Hamilton's comment, which comes weeks after incidents at the French and British Grands Prix caused technical director James Allison to question whether they were "deliberate or incompetence", was seized upon by the media and at the subsequent press conference Hamilton was asked to explain.
Asked if by "tricks" he was implying that
Ferrari was bending the rules, he replied: "No, we all have trick things on our cars. Trick is just a word for something special, I guess."
"Something special that's legal," he was asked.
"Just something special," he replied. "I don't know. I don't know what's on their car so I couldn't tell you either way."
"I'm not saying that there's anything illegal on..." he added, "I'm just saying we all have something trick. There's probably something trick on…
"Trick is just something that helps you bring that extra bit of performance," he continued. "That's all I mean. I don't mean anything to it so please don't read into it and please don't twist my words and say that I say they're doing anything illegal because they're not. They just out-performed us today and we've got to work harder, but there are things that they have on the car that we might not have on the car and vice versa and we've got to try and find out what and improve on that. That's it.
"We came here with a pretty good upgrade and, I mean, generally, every time we do bring an upgrade they bring a bigger one," he added. "They were quicker, particularly in qualifying in the last sector. We've known for the last four races or so that they've had some things on their car that's enabled them to be quicker on the straights and yeah, we've just got to work harder, I guess."
FIA race director Charlie Whiting subsequently admitted to being amused by Hamilton's comments.
"I'm quite amused by it really," he told reporters. "We know quite a lot about the
Ferrari car, and there is no way that Lewis would know anything about the
Ferraricar.
"They're doing a good job at the moment," he continued, "and
Mercedes have got to try and counter that, haven't they?
"That particular comment doesn't actually say anything," he admitted. "If he says they've got a few tricks going on on that car, clearly they have got some things on the car which are giving it performance, which we're all aware of - all us in the FIA are aware of - and obviously we are happy with."