Lewis Hamilton vented his frustration via team radio at Mercedes for F1 Miami Grand Prix qualifying error - this is why…
Sky’s Ted Kravitz explained why Hamilton felt his team made a mistake which cost him a ౠbetter qualifying run.
“Mercedes haven’t been quick🐻 all weekend, or at least s💯ince FP1,” Kravitz said.
“George Russell complained of understeer.
“Hamil🍌ton lost two tenths on the final lap in his effort in Q2, and was out.
“‘Left it too late there, guys’.
“What that was about - they left i🧸t too late ꩵgetting him out of the garage in Q2.
“It meant that he found himself in a little bi🀅t of traffic, which meant he couldn’t prepare his tyres the way he wanted.
“That meant the lap was compromised from then on.
“You see? It al𒐪l leads int💞o the other. Everything has to be perfect.
“Hamilton felt that, if they had got him out o🐎f the garage quicker, he would have had the time he needed to prepare his tyres as he needed to.
“Then his lap time would have been better.
“Would it have been enough to gain two tenths?
“Can they compete with Ferrari and Aston Martin? Certainly not here. Maybe t🔥hey can compete for the rest of the year.”
What Hamilton said
“I was a♉t the back෴ of the queue and everyone slowed into the last corner, so I lost all temperatures and couldn’t do the lap.”
What Russell said
“Everybody is working so, so hard t💮o bring more performance 🀅to the car, it’s definitely not for a lack of effort and it’s just not coming to us at the moment.
“So there’s a lot to think about. Aꦡ 𝕴few questions that need answering.”
What Toto Wolff said
“I would say the performance is just rea🅷lly bad, and for George and Lewis it just really went south. Yoꦦu could see in the first sector the car really wasn’t there.
“When things go bad they compound b▨ad and this has ha🐼ppened for him [Hamilton] and for all of us as a team.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decཧade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
