“It was the team’s call” - Lewis Hamilton claims “wrong decision” cost him possible win at F1 Dutch Grand Prix
The race at Zandvoort was ch🍰aotic early on as rain fell heavily on the opening lap𝓡.
This led to contrastin🌸g decisions up and down the grid to either pit for intermed🌃iates or stay out on dry tyres.
Mer🌠cedes decided to keep both of their drivers ou🎐t on the slicks, waiting until Lap 3 to stop.
It was the wrong call as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez, who✃ stopped at the end of Lap 1, was running 10 seconds clear at the front of the field.
Hamilton ultimate🔯ly recovered from outside the top 10 to finish sixth.
Reflecting on his Sunday, Hamilton said: "I feel really good. I didn’t really know how today would go, I sat last night racking my brain: ‘Where did we go wrong? How did we end up in this position?’ I was then working on how to prꦯogress this morning. I was the only one of the medium tyre. I wanted to be off-set to the people around me🌟, not everyone on the grid.
"When the rain came, we as a team made the wrong decision. It was the team’s call. We paid the price for that. We came out last, we were just chasing, I kept my head d🐻own.
"It was a good example that when you call or stumble, just keep trying. Every time I had to pit, I came out and kept chasing and chasing. I was really happy - I g𓆉ot past the McLaren, for example, which on this track is not so easy to do. I was𝓀 quicker than Sainz at the end, I just needed to hit DRS.
"Today I had the pace🧔, in the conditions and if we made the right call, to be challenging the top two. I think we would have been challenging Max, if I’m honest. Particularly when we got to the dry. Pace-wise, we we🌺ren’t terribly far off. Not saying we’d have beaten them."
Hamilton remains fourth in the F1 drivers' championship, losing ground to Aston Martin's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso after he finished second.
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