7-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has a legion of fans all across the world. The Mercedes driver always takes some time out of his busy schedule to spend some time with his fans. He once again showed his endearing side after he landed in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix. A few years ago, he had taken a photo with a young girl while doing media interviews.

Hamilton once again recreated the photo with the young girl at the Melbourne airport. We can see the then and now version of the picture when someone posted it on Twitter.

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The 7-time world champion would hope that getting so much positive energy from the country would also translate on the track.

Can Lewis Hamilton score some points at the Australian GP?

Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes have been struggling in the 2022 season against their rivals on the track. Although he did score a podium at the season opener in Bahrain, it can be said due to luck as both Red Bulls ahead of him retired.

But former F1 engineer Rob Smedley mentioned that the German team can still bounce back this season. He stated that the 2022 season would be a development war as there is a lot of performance that can be extracted from the cars.

“I would expect that to change now more than any other year as people find big chunks of performance in lots of different areas. The development phase of the car is at such an immature stage that the cars will change significantly from the first race to the final race. There’s going to be a very, very strong development curve on those cars,” said Smedley.

Lewis Hamilton needs Mercedes to develop the W13 as fast as possible before it’s too late for him to have a challenge for the world championship.

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Melbourne has always been a good track for the Mercedes driver and he would be hoping that he can start racking up some good points from here on. It would be interesting to see if the new track layout of Albert Park suits the W13.

Hamilton would hope that he could notch up another podium and perform better than his teammate at least this weekend.