‘That wasn’t what knocked him out’ - Lewis Hamilton’s car set-up claims debated
The true reason for Lewis Hamilton's shock Qও1 exit in China has been explained.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s claims about the set-up of his Mercedes F1 car have been debated following his shocking Chinese Grand Prix qualifying result🃏.
Just hours after the seven-time world champion enjoyed his best result of the season by finishing second to Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in the sprint race, he could only qualify 18th on th꧃🌌e grid for Sunday’s grand prix.
His Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell took eighth as he iꦍnflꦜicted another qualifying defeat on Hamilton, who failed to make it out of Q1 for the first time in two years following a costly error at Turn 14.
Hamilton said he had made “massive changes” to his car ahead of qualifying, something that his former teammate and title rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg contested.
The 39-year-old Briton’s latest qualifying strug𓂃gle was debated by Sky 𒁏Sports F1 pundits Karun Chandhok and Damon Hill.
"If he didn’t go deep at 14, he w🍨ould have been quicker than Georg🎉e,” Chandhok said.
“He w🤪ould hav✨e got through qualifying. Then who knows, as the session unfolded.
“M▨aybe they did go in different set-up direct🌺ions. But that wasn’t what knocked him out in Q1.
“It was the error at 14.”
1996 world champion Hill 𝄹said: “They are fighting over the crumbs ꦺat the table.
🦂"They are not in the title fight. Okay, in the constructors, they want to get the best results. But frankly they are not where they want to be, or expect to be. So they are trying everything.
“I don’t know what Lewis’ set-up is. Nico was suggesting that he doesn’t ꩵalways have that different a set-up to Gཧeorge.
“But subtle differences make a big difference inღ this sport.”
Chandhok then responded: “The drivers have diffe𒀰rent set-ups all 🅰the time.
“The point you are m൲aking is valid. But Mercedes ha🧸ven’t fully understood the clear direction.
“As Damon knows, if you’ve got a good base-line, you will arri♊ve at a circuit with a good base-line set-up which pretty much works at most circuits.
“Then, a little✨ tweak which is circuit-specific. But the strong base-line is there. I bet Red Bull have the base-line. I think ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚMcLaren have that base-line now.
“Mercedes still have not found that happy base-line whi☂ch is why we are still hearing about these experiments.”
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