Lewis Hamilton rues yellow flag after doing ‘more than enough for pole’
Lewis Hamilton was convinced he would have claimed pole forꦇ the United States Gra༒nd Prix sprint race without 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 Franco Colapinto spun at Turn 12 ahead 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 th💧e yellow flag and that’s what it is. I was four-tenths up,” Hamilton said.
Russell went on to quali🃏fy second, missing out on pole by just 0.12 seconds.
Despite the frustration of a lost pole, Hamilton was buoyed by the progress Mercedes h🗹ave made with their new upgrade package whi⛎ch debuted in Austin.
“The good thing is the team’s made a step with the car, the upg✃rade has clearly worked,” he explained.
“I’m really grateful to everyone back at the factory for all the hard work over this perio⛄d of time because it’s been a tough slog for everyone to get the🐬 upgrade to make sure that they’re working and so yeah it’s not the end of the day. We got another chance.”
Hamilton also praised changes his Mercedes team made to his car after su😼ffering a high-speed spin during the only practice sess▨ion.
“We did a great job to make changes to the car and it’s always꧙ a bit of a gamble because you don’t know whether or no🌼t 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 soon as I ♑got out the car was like night an💧d day.”
Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin was also convinced Hamilton 💖was on co⭕urse to claim pole.
“We can take many positives but ultimately, we end the day slightly frustrated,” he said. “Lewis was on for a lap that would have been more than en🍨ough for P1.
“We had opted🅘 to go on the early side to avoid any interruptions with yellows on a 🏅busy track at the end of the session.”
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