Lewis Hamilton left rueing key decision after poor qualifying
Lewis Hamilton brands qualifying❀ 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 qualif🐼ying 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 obv🐎iously not great,” a despondent Hamilton said.
“I was happy to get into Q3 and it was a really tight battle out there with everyone. I just didn’t get great laps in Q🍃3.
“We ꦚare running higher than we woul꧃d 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 usually the knock-on✤ effect from a weekend like we had before.
”But Charles [Leclerc] did a🌃n amazing job. We went in different directions with set-up. I had a lot of understeer and just couldn't dial i꧟t up throughout qualifying.
"I genuinely love the rain so I hope it 🌱comes tomorrow after a qﷺualifying like that.”
How did Charles Leclerc unlock more performance?
Leclerc fared much better than Hamilton and put hi𒀰s stronger lap dow🔴n to finding gains thanks to his driving style.
"The lap w🐈as really good. I put everyꦰthing in that lap. There wasn't much I could have done better,” the Monegasque explained to Sky Sports F1.
"Yesterday I was꧙ quite happy 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 really happy with it.
"We need to ಞkeep working. There's still a big gap compared to McLaren and Red Bull and this is our target.
"On the whol🦂e, it's been positive because I feel a lot more comfortable with the car.
“We really found something from my driving style that seems to work a bit better and gave me a lot more confide𒐪nce for the rest of qualifying and this is positive for the rest of the season."
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