British driver and reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton believes his Mercedes team must work on better communication if they are to repeat last year’s heroics. 

Hamilton lost the Australian Grand Prix to Ferrari driver and close competitor Sebastian Vettel, courtesy of a combination of blunders from his own side.

After the race, Hamilton was understandably furious at the lack of communication, which according to him, cost his team the race.

“Communication is something we are obviously going to try and work on,” said Hamilton, as per Crash.net.

“I was like ‘Can I fight? can I go?’ and they were taking their time so I was like ‘I am going for it’ and I gave everything in that moment.”

He added: “I was quite close behind in his tow, just nipped the right front and didn’t make the corner. After that I was catching him again, but in trying to catch up, temperatures again were on the limit so constantly being pushed and pulled.

"I was able to manoeuvre the car and get relatively close. It was like [two of the same poles of] a magnet, you can't get the magnet past a certain region.

"That's how it was. I was able to follow a lot closer than I remember in the past, but I couldn't get any closer than that.”

Hamilton, who ultimately finished second in the race, five seconds behind Vettel, revealed that he was keen to protect his unit while pushing to register victory.

“I was like ‘I’ve got to keep going’ so I was nervous of damaging the engine at the same time. I cooled it down and it started coming back, I got relatively close,” he said.

“I just thought, I couldn’t get him in those other laps, my tyres are going to be worse now, I am driving at 110% and I am risking everything just for that seven points so I probably should just sit back, save my engine and use the life of it for the next ones.

“That goes against my spirit of racing because I want to race right down to the last line. I am fit enough, I felt good, but the way the sport is set up with fuel saving and all these different things, three engines, you have to think about them and back off.

"So it’s probably not exciting for the fans to have seen because they probably wanted to see it to the end, but I want to finish my season on these three engines, I don’t wanna have to have a fourth.”