Mercedes Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas are hoping for rain during the remain🔜der 🐻of the German Grand Prix weekend after Friday’s sweltering temperatures.

The German manufacturer trailed chief rival Ferrari throughout boওth practi🍎ce sessions at Hockenheim on Friday amid the highest temperatures seen so far in the 2019 season, with track conditions reaching 57.2c and air temps peaking at 37.5c.

Mercedes has introduced a new aerodynamic upgrade at this weekend’s race, which includes an update aimed at impro🧸ving the cooling problems t💞hat led to its worst result of the year at the Austrian Grand Prix.

“The tyres don’t likౠe the temperature, so very slow out laps and they don’t last very long,” Hamil🧸ton explained.

“It’s just about trying to keep the tyres in the working rang🎉e, they are just always a little bit above the range, so always just overheating and that’s been the main issue today. But everyone is in the same boat.

“If it♏’s ﷽going to rain over the weekend this is kind of a waste of a day,” he added.

“I don’t think we learned much today with it being﷽ so hot. If it’s cooler on the weekend and dry nothing from💯 today really applies.

“The tyres will come towards us and everybody will be♛ quic♉ker and more comfortable on the track but we will wait and see.”

Asked if he would prefer rain, Hami⛦l♎ton replied: “I love the rain so any rain is always a good thing.”

Bottas✤ echoed Hamilton’s comments but felt Mercedes had made progress with its latest update t🦄o improve its overheating issues.

“It was extrem😼ely hot and I cannot remember driving in these kind of conditions but anyway it is the same for everyone,” Bottas🍌 said.

“It makes it more tricky for the drivers and especially for the cars and tyres, lots of overheating, especially in sectoꦺr three with the corner combinations.

“It becomes so sensitive with the car sliding a little bit mo꧑re, you pick up 10 degrees of extra tyre temperature and you can lo🐼se two-tenths like that. So quite sensitive.

“There could be rain on the way and the same on Sunday so it is going to be a day that꧟ we need to be very reactive and dynamic with the weather and the car setup,” he added.

“We haven’t really 💖run in the wet so that should be nice. I actually hope for rain as🌃 it would be nice to try.”