Lewis Hamilton admits ‘frustration took over’ and reveals set-up call led to penalty in F1 Austrian GP
The seven-time world champion struggled for pace a♐s he slipped from fifth to sev෴enth on the road in Sunday’s 71-lap race at the Red Bull Ring.
A five-second time penalty for repeatedly exceeding t💃rack limits compounded his disappointing day further, with Hamilton regularly heard complaining o෴ver team radio.
Hamilto🔯n’s complaints led to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff intervening to give his star driver a telling off, firmly saying: “Lewis, the car is bad, we know. Just please drive it.”
Taking to social media after the race, Hamilton conceded he h🌞ad lost ℱhis cool.
“There are days when I can say I’m truly proud of mys๊elf and days like today when frustration takes over,” he wrote. “In a race it can feel like you’re hanging off a cliff and losing the strength to hold on.
“It’s confusing for us to have such strong performances one day and then be nowhere the next. But when you really car⛦e about☂ what you’re doing you brush it off and keep fighting!”
Things would get worse for Hamilton when he was hit with an additional 10-second time penalty following a post-race investigation into track limits violations after a protest by Asto🌌n Martin.
Hamilton’s extra punishment dropped him a position to eighth, one place behind Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.
The 38-year-old Briton explained after the race that a front wing set-up change on his Mercedes had played a role in his struggles🙈 to stay within the white lines.
“We took out a lot of front wing,” Hamilton said. “We knew we had a really bad rear-end here so we took out a lot of front win🍎g to try and keep that balance so that we could do a long run, go long.
“And we massively under-egged it. I was,♊ like, almost full lock around the last two corners. Going into turn 10, it was just sliding and I couldn’t do anything about it.”
Hamilton saidꦅ the issue was partly addressed during his pit stops.
“Through the stops we then added a🅺 lot of wing,♕” he added. “The car started to slowly come back to at least getting around and staying on-track.”
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