Hamilton clarifies data comments on Twitter

Lewis Hamilton has insisted he has "zero problems" with Mercedes and Valtteri Bottas after he criticised the sharing of team-mate data.

The three-time World Champion vented his frustration in a recent interview about how "unfair" it was that team-mates are essentially able to copy each other and that his own hard work is able to be passed on.

Hamilton, though, has been forced to clear up the situtation and said he was simply talking generally about the sport rather than suggesting he had an issue with his team ahead of the new season.

I wish to clarify, I have not hit out at my team at all. My point on data sharing is solely my feelings about the sport in general

— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) February 20, 2017

It has been my feeling since the day I started F1 and still is 10 years later. There is zero problems in my team, zero problems with Bottas

— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) February 20, 2017