Lewis Hamilton blames front wing misjudgement for “really bad” opening stint

Lewis Hamilton reflects o🧔n a "fun" race at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

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168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton 🐈cited “massive understeer” as the reason for his “really bad” first stint at th🅠e Mexico City Grand Prix.

After making a good start, getting ahead of Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, Hamilton s🎐truggled for pace at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

Hamilton was overtaken by Russell on-track bef꧒ore dropping back.

It wasn’t until the second half of the race where Hamilඣt🍰on came alive as he reeled in Russell, who was nursing some front wing damage.

While teams aren’t allowed to change t♑heir cars under parc ferme conditions, small tweaks to the front wing can be made (this can be done during pit stops as well).

Hamilton revealed that he “took too mu༒ch front wing out of the car” resulting in “massive understeer”.

Reflecting on the race in Mexico, ꦜHamilton said: “Yeah, it was fun. I had ꦅfun today.

“I had a good start, I had a really bad first stint, took too mꦯuch front wing out of the car, I had ♒massive, massive understeer.

“I was like, damn. Because you have to basically guesstimate where you're going to be with the f🐟ront wing, and I had a lot less th𓆏an George [Russell].

“But the laps to the g༺rid, it felt likܫe it was the right thing, and it was clearly not.

“And after my stop,💧 I was able to rectify it, and then after that I had a much better pace, and I was able to push and keep going, and we stopped a little bit early as well, compared to what I had planned and stuff. We got good points.”

Hamilton and Russell battled hard for fourth, with the seven-time worl🐻d champion eventually getting through.

Another interesting point was that Hamilton was running the ♍new Mercedes upgrades, while after his crash in practice, Russell reverted to some older parts.

Hamilton is now confident Mercedes will t꧂ruly know which package is the one to go for in Brazil.

“No, he didn't but I had 10 laps, I kne🉐w it was going to happen at some point. I think he had a probl🥀em with his front wing,” he said of the battle with Russell.

“But we got a lot of information. I could see𒐪 on his car where he was better than me, and I'm sure hopefully he'll be able to see where he's better than me. Package-wise, hopefully🥃 they have lots of data, so we'll figure out who starts at what next race.”

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