Lewis Hamilton left rueing key decision after poor qualifying
Lewis Hamilton brands quali🌠fyin🌼g P8 at the Japanese Grand Prix as "not great".
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was left rueing a decision to pursue a different set-up direction to Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.
While Leclerc took fourth for Ferrari, Hamilton was three-tenths off his teammate in a disappointing eighth as his challenging start to life with F1’s most iconic🥂 team continued during qual🎃ifying at Suzuka.
The seven-time world champion revealed after the session that he struggled to extract performance from his Ferrari after going down a different set-up route.
"Not good enough from my👍 side. P8 is obviously not great,” a despondentඣ Hamilton said.
“I was happy to get into Q3 and it was a really tight battle out there with everyone. I just didn’t꧙ get great laps in Q3.
“We are 🍬running higher than we wo𝕴uld like but everyone is in the same boat in that respect.
“Particularly after the last race, we are a bit higher than we want to be. It’s usual☂ly the knock-on effect from a weekend like we had before.
”Butജ Charles [Leclerc] did an amazing job. We went in different directions with set-up. I had a lot of understeer and just couldn't dial it up throughout qualifying.
"I genuinely love the꧃ rain so I hope it comes tomorrow after a qualifying 𒁏like that.”
How did Charles Leclerc unlock more performance?
Leclerc fared much better than Hamilton and put💛 his stronger lap down to finding gains෴ thanks to his driving style.
"The lap was really g�♒�ood. I put everything in that lap. There wasn't much I could have done better,” the Monegasque explained to Sky Sports F1.
"Yesterday I was quite h💦appy because we worked really well and unlocked some performance in the car.
"In qualifying, it started to go away from us a little bit, especially in Q3. I had either a lot of oversteer or understeer but the lap I did, I was rea❀lly🌌 happy with it.
"We need to keep working. There's still a big gap compared to McLaren and Red Bull and th൩is is our target.
"On the whole, it's been positive because I feel a lot ꦐmore comfortable with the c𝓀ar.
“We really found something from my driving style that seems to work a bit better and gave me a lot more con🍰fidence for tꦆhe rest of qualifying and this is positive for the rest of the season."
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