In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton admits he has had to learn to adapt his driving style more in recent years

In brief

Hamilton learning to adapt driving style

Lewis Hamilton admits he has had to learn to adapt his driving style to his car in recent seasons as Mercedes have fought to become more competitive.

“I just keep trying to drive the way I want to drive and then realise it doesn’t always work,” he said. “Then I’m trying to, kind of, massage my way through. But it’s not worked that well still to this point.

“I think ultimately, as a driver, you have to be adaptive and you can see that sometimes your approaches to certain things aren’t perfect. You just start looking at ways in which you can still hold on to the essence of what made you as good as you have been, and see how you can evolve that to get to achieve what you need to achieve.

“Ultimately as drivers, you should be able to drive anything – and I think we can. It’s just in certain situations, some drivers are able to deal with things better than others. It takes some people a short time and others longer to adapt.”

Fairclough scores eighth British F4 win at Knockhill

Deagen Fairclough extended his championship lead in British F4 by taking his eighth victory in 19 races in the opening race of three of the weekend at Knockhill.

The Hitech driver passed Rowan Campbell-Pilling late to win by just over half a second, but Campbell-Pilling dropped from second to eighth in the final classifications after a ten-second time penalty for jumping the start.

Alex Ninovic took second with Martin Molnar completing the podium. Alpine junior driver and F1 Academy championship leader Abbi Pulling finished in sixth.

Le Mans Ultimate coming to consoles

Motorsport Games, the publisher of the officially licensed World Endurance Championship simracing title Le Mans Ultimate, says it will “accelerate” development of the game to consoles.

In an investor call to report their Q2 financial results – which included income from settling agreements with IndyCar and the British Touring Car Championship after abandoning game projects for both licences – CEO Stephen Hood said the company were looking to bring Le Mans Ultimate onto consoles.

“Our business now boasts a promising product and development team with a significantly reduced operating expense base and detachment from historical challenges that we now believe presents an attractive opportunity to investors and potential acquirers,” said Hood.

“Given the strong customer reception to our ongoing development of the Le Mans Ultimate game, we have decided to accelerate efforts to bring this to title to games consoles and reach a larger audience.”

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