Lewis Hamilton joy as Mercedes F1 car “came alive” in wet sprint qualifying
Lewis Hamilton felt like his Mercedes F1 car "came aliv🥃e" in qualifying for thꦐe Chinese Grand Prix sprint.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes F1 car “came alive” in a wet qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prꦫix sprint race.
The seven-time world champion only just advanced to SQ3 in Shanghai but capi𒉰talised on a downpour to put his Mercedes second on the grid for Saturday’s sprint race.
Hamilton was beaten to pole position by 1.2 seconds by McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris but secured his and Merced🅺es’ best qualif🐻ying result so far this season.
Teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell was only 11th 🎐after suffering an elimination in SQ2.&nbs🎉p;
“It was very tricky, tricky conditions, not a l♔ot of grip as you saw for everyone,” Hamilton said. “But yeah, so happy. As soon as I saw the rain coming, I was geꦇtting excited.
“Naturally in dry conditions, we’re not quick enough, so when the rain came, and I thought I’d have a bit of a better opportunity, and that’s kind of when🙈 it all came alive.”
Despite f𝓰inding himself on an all-British front-row, Hamilton doubts Mercedes will have the pace to challenge for victory in the👍 sprint race, especially if it is dry.
“It really depends what the conditions will be. If it’s like that, maybe we’ll have a chance of being some🦩where up there,” he explained.
“I think if it’s dry, naturally the Fe꧙rraris and Red Bulls will come by. Maybe we can hold off some of the others.”
Hamilton is🗹 enduring his worst-ever start to an F1 season by his per💧formance was praised by Sky Sports’ pundits.
“All day he was aheadꦇ of George. Even in the dry sessions, George didn’t seem comfortable or confident in the car,” Karun Chandhok said.
“Lewis exists to win. He won’t be happy to be down the order, as he was in the dry sessions of♛ FP1. When the rain came, he rose to the challenge and delivered the lap.
“He will be crossing his fingers and doing a rain dance because it’s h🏅is only chance of getting on the podium.”
1996 world champion Damon Hill added: “He got excited w♒hen the rain came because he knew he could do something with the car which, under normal circumstances, would not 🐷be competitive.”
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