Hamilton, who finished fourth after an uncompetitive showing in China, said Mercedes’ biggest problem this year has been understanding how to get the tyres to work at their optimum.
“It’s a challenge we all relish and believe me when I say every single person in the team is hyped up,” he said. “When we finish weekends and we have not delivered the way we feel we should, it is not a great feeling.
“This team does not take it as a negative, it takes it as an opportunity to grow and pull closer and extract more from ourselves.
“The Ferraris and Red Bulls were quick here last year and I anticipate it will be the same and we have no idea where we will be this weekend. We are still the same team and I believe we can battle it out with these guys.
“Now we have Red Bull close to their best and Ferrari at their best, if we are able to pull through and deliver as we have in previous years it would be the biggest achievement this team would have accomplished.”
Hamilton also said that a delay in signing a new contract to take him beyond this season did not mean there was any risk of him moving on.
“I am fully committed to Mercedes and have every plan to be with the team for the future,” he said.
“It is about getting on with it, we were going to do it after the last race but we had a lot on and then I was not really around.
“We will do it in the near future for sure. I have made it very clear and so have they that I want to continue. Neither of us have the personality of saying we are going to be with each other next year and then not. It is just about finalising it.”
