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Lewis Hamilton says he needs a dry weekend if he is to be competitive at the Brazilian GP

Brit says 2013 has been the worst season of his career in the rain

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A frustrated Lewis Hamilton fears he has no chance of being competitive at the Brazilian Grand Prix unless the rain abates at Interlagos.

On the subject of tyres, and two sets of 2014-spec slick medium compound rubber were made available to each car on Friday, a move which Pirelli hoped would give them some valuable feedback on next season's tyres. However, the persistent rain that dogged the sessions scuppered those plans with Sebastian Vettel the only driver to complete any mileage on them, and that was just an unrepresentative single lap in the damp. Mercedes Team Principal Ross Brawn said his outfit saw no sense in trying out the prototype rubber given the miserable conditions. "We always work on the principle that bad information's worse than no information. With all due respect, Red Bull may well have found something out that we don't anticipiate, but we couldn't understand what you would learn in those conditions," the Englishman said in the team bosses' press conference. "Even though it looked like they were trying to take the profiles of the tyres and so on it was difficult to see how it could be useful. Certainly our conclusion was there was no use for us with what we wanted to do to run the tyre this morning."

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