Hamilton was forced into an e🎐arly pit stop after struggling with tyre degradation in the first portion of the race.

Shortly after making his pit stop, the Safety Car was deployed because of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries’ crash at Turn 6.

This meant a number of🐠 Hamilton’s rivals could pit under the Safety Car, reducing the amount of time they would lose because drivers who had already stopped are forced to drive to a time delta.

It meant Hamilton was 10th, rather than fifth, losing out to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg - the latter duo h🎃adn’t stopped under the Safety Car.

Hamilton showed great aggr𒁃ession to overtake Ocon and Hulkenberg immediately, before flying past Russell into Turn 1.

The seven-time world champion ultimately finished sixth having been unable to overtake 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz in the closing laps.

“It started off pretty decent, then I had quite a bit of deg on my medium 𒅌tyre, then I had to pit, then the Safety Car really kicked me in the teeth,” Hamilton said. “I lost five places and that was difficult to swallow for a second.

“I knew there was nothing I could do🥂 about it, so all I could do was just focus on what I could control. I got my head down, was just racing hard from the restart, and had a great battle with a bunch of cars, which was really positive for༺ me to feel in the car.

“I was chasing the Ferrari [Sainz] dow♌n at the end, 𓃲just not quite enough to get by him. If I hadn’t had that Safety Car stuff maybe we’d have had a better battle until the end.”

It was a misseꦡd opportunity for Russell, who lost several places following the Safety Car res🔯tart.

He finished eighth withജ the fastest 🦹lap to his name.

“I think it was all right,” Russell added. “But following and overtaking seemed pretty challenging [here] this year for everybody, and I think after those first few laps and the restart, the Safety Car restart, ไit was all behind and line astern from where we were.

“[I’m] a little bit disappointed because I had a really good start, mꦐa𒈔de a few positions, [made a] really good move around the Safety Car, and then I went deep into Turn 1, almost crashed into Fernando [Alonso], and lost a position to Lance, [so it was a] scrappy lap.

“Then I lost a position to Lewis and ultimately ended up P8, when potentially P5 was on the cards. So, that’s the way the game works. We need to be quicke൲r and try and come back stronger in Miami.”