Hamilton explains decision to abandon ‘hit and miss’ simulator work for Canadian GP Lewis Hamilton has prepared differently for the Canadian Grand Prix after struggling to align his simulator work and on-track performance. Lewis Hamilton believes that his work on the simulator at Ferrari’s Maranello base does not always translate accurately to on-track performance, resulting in the Briton changing his approach when preparing for the Canadian Grand Prix. Since his strongest result of the season in China, where he secured his first Grand Prix podium with the Scuderia, Hamilton has repeatedly missed out on a spot in the top five and admitted that he felt he was in “no man’s land” last time out in Miami. The run of frustrating performances left him looking for ways to alter his race preparation and he settled on avoiding the simulator ahead of his return to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the venue that saw his first Grand Prix victory back in 2007. Asked why he moved away from simulator work, Hamilton responded: “With simulations, I feel that the goalposts are always moving. “Last year I used it every week and more often than not, I felt that you do all the work on the sim and you find a set-up that you’re comfortable with, you get to the track and everything’s opposite so you’re undoing the things you’ve learned. “Some of the ways you approach the corners, you have to shift and adjust. The set-up that you felt was good on the simulator is not the same as the track sometimes. Sometimes it is, so it’s kind of hit and miss. “I just decided for this one, I was going to sit it out and focus more on the data. There was just a lot of deep diving on through-corner balance, mechanical balance, corner