F1 Singapore GP: Lewis Hamilton explains “you need to listen to me” radio criticism
During the early phase of the race at the Marina🍸 Bay Street Circuit, Hamilton struggled to stick with the leading trio as h🥃e couldn’t get temperature into his intermediate tyres.
Hamilton then complained ov💮er team radio: “I told you about these tyres, in the future you need to listen to me, no grip”.
There were some bizarre sugg🧸estions that Hamilton wanted full wets instead of intermediates but after the race, the Mercedes driver cleared up wಌhy he wasn’t with the team’s decisions in Singapore.
“No, 🌸I wanted to s🎶tart with scrubbed [intermediates] and I wanted to go to the soft,” Hamilton explained. “It didn’t really make any difference, so who knows.”
Mercedes have struggled thro🥂ughout this season with getting te𝐆mperature into their tyres.
A scrubbed set - a set of tyres that has done at least onꩵe lap already - tends to warm up faster as it already has had a heat cycle put through 🎃them.
In the case of a scrubbed set of&nb💜sp;intermediates, the edges of the tyre would have been slightly worn down, allowing for bꦜetter warm up.
However, Mercedes would have been concerned about how the scrubbed set of tyres would have coped with the wetter parts of the circuit and how long they could have lasted in ter🍃🍒ms of a full race distance.
“I did laps to the grid on the scrubbed ༒set and it was better and with the new softs set it was terrible,” he added.
“It took several laps for the temperatures to come up and we can’t fire our tyres up as quick as the othersꦰ for some reason, both on wets and on slicks.
“So we don’t really understand why. There’s something going on there with temperatures becaus𒆙e on the long runs in the dry we’ve got good l☂ongevity, so maybe it’s something with that.”
Hamilton ultimately finished the race in ninth after crashing into the wall at Turn 7 before being stuck behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel in the lat♚ter stages of 🅷the race following the Safety Car.
He sits sixth in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 standings with five rounds to go.
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