Lewis Hamilton rues yellow flag after doing ‘more than enough for pole’
Lewis Hamilton was convinced he would have claimed pole for the United States Grand Prix sprint race w𒅌ithout yellow flags.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton rued the timing of yellow flags which he felt cost him pole position for the sprint race at the F1 United States Grand Prix.
Both Mercedes drivers went out early in SQ3 to set their sole efforts of the final part of qualifying and Hamilton had been on a much faster lap than teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.
But when Williams driver Fran🐠co Colapinto spun at Turn 12 ahea𒅌d of Hamilton, the seven-time world champion had to slow down for brief yellow flags. He ended up seventh as others improved.
“Just got unlucky 🌸with the yellow flag and that’s what itꦦ is. I was four-tenths up,” Hamilton said.
Russell went o💝n to qualify second, missing out﷽ on pole by just 0.12 seconds.
Despite the frus♌tration of a lost pole, Hamilton was buoyed by the progress Mercedes have made with their new upgrade package which debuted in Austin.
“The good thing is the te🅰am’s made a step with the car, the upgrade has clearly worked,” he explained.
“I’m really grateful to everyone back at the factory for all the hard work over this period of time because it’s been a tough slog for everyone to get the upgrade to make sure that they’re wo♚rking and so yeah it’s not the end of the day. We got another chance.”
Hamilton alﷺso praised changes his Mercedes team made to his car after suffering a high-s💙peed spin during the only practice session.
“We did a grea💛t job to make changes to 🌼the car and it’s always a bit of a gamble because you don’t know whether or not it’s going to work, the changes that you make,” he explained.
“⛎You hope they do what you aim to do with them and as so𒈔on as I got out the car was like night and day.”
Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew S༒hovlin was also convinced Hamilton was on course to claim pole.
“We can take many positives but ultimately, we end the day slightly frustrated,” 𝕴he said. “Lewis was on fo⛦r a lap that would have been more than enough for P1.
“We had opted to go on the early side to avoid any interruptions with yellow🦂s on a busy track at the end of the session.”
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