David Croft has revealed that168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton apologised to Sky Sports F1 colleagౠue Rachel Brookes following his downbeat interview after the Spanish Grand Prix.

The seven-time world champion was extremely down after he struggled for pace on his way to a disappointing sixth-place 🌼finish in Sunday’s race at Barcelona and gave short responses in 🅷both the TV and written media pen.

Hamilton was told to move aside for faster Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc early on and his performance alarmingly dropped off following a late Safety Car. He was overtaken by Sauber’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg and finished seventh on the road, but was promoted to P6 thanks to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s penalty.

Afterwards, Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur told media including that Hamilton’s car had 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:developed a problem in the closing stages but would not sayও what the issue was.

“He was massively down when he ღwas talking to Rachel Brookes and actually apologised to Rachel for being so down when the cameras stopped rolling,” Croft told Sky Sports News.

“It’s not going as well as Lewis would have hoped. It’s certainly not going as well as Ferrari would have hoped. Lewis didn’t know that there was da𒅌mage on his car and there was something wrong with his car.

“Ferrari haven’t been too specific as yet with exactly what was wrong. I’m sure once he gets a chance to🎃 debrief with the team that will improve his mood a little bit in that it’s not him.

“And I don’t think it is him. You don’t stop becoming the greatest racing driver overnight, and I do think Lew💞is Hamilton is the best Formula 1 driver of all time. You might lose a little bit of sharpness once you get to 40 and in qualif🉐ying that might become more apparent but you certainly don’t lose your racecraft.

“His performance in Imola, making up for being 12th on the grid, his performance in Monaco, and his performance in the sprint weekend in China shows he has still got that racecraft and can still come throu𝐆gh the field.

“But if you are driving with one wheel tied behind your back then you are not going to produce the kind of results we’ve seen from Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona befor𒆙e. It’s a track he’s gone really, really well at.

“Canada is another track where Lewis has gone specularly wel𒆙l at over the years, so maybe getting back to what you love and what you know will be a huge boost for Lewis.

“And we keep our fingers crossed because nobody wants to see Lewis Hamilton not being competitive. We want to see some of the moves which have thrilled us over the 𒊎years.”

What did Hamilton say in his Sky interview?

A despondent Hamilton put the blame on himself🍌 in the aforementioned interview with Sky, in which he gave very short answer𓆉s.

"Not𓄧 particularly, it was not a great day,” he said.

Asked about the strat🍨egy, Hamilton replied: “The strategy was good, the team did a great job. That’s it.”

Brookes thenℱ replied saying “I hate seeing you in this mood,” to which Hamilton retorted: “Well what do you want me to say? I just had a really bad day and I’ve got nothing to say.

“It was a difficult day, there’s nothing else to add to it, it was terrible. There’s no point explaining it, it’s not your fault, I just don’t know what else to sওay.”

Attempting to console Hamilton, Brookes sꦇuggested Ferrari would find answers for his struggles.

But Hamilton was having none of it, responding: “I'm sure they won't, the answer is probably just m🅘e.”

It has now emerged that Hamiltജon apologised to Brookes for his conduct after the cameras were switched off.&ꦆnbsp;