‘I knew it was all over’ - Lewis Hamilton on his costly F1 crash at the Singapore GP
The seven-time world champion had a race to forget in Singapore as he hit the wall in the tricky conditions on Lap 33 during his pursuit of Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz as they battled over third place.
Hamilton damaged his front wing and was forced to pit, dropping him from fourth to eighth. He was then overtaken by the recovering 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen when he ran wide in his attempts get past Sebastian Vettel, leaving the Merce♋des driver a lowly ninth, where he ultimately finished.
Hamilton apologised to his team over the radio, saying: “I’m so sorry about that guys, I f**𝕴*** that up big time.”
Speaking to ﷺm🌺edia afterwards, Hamilton said he wouldn’t beat himself up over his uncharacteristic mistake.
“I knew it was all over from then, but these things happen,” sai﷽d Hamilton.
“I’m not going to punish myself for a ꦡmistake. It was very tricky conditions for everyone.
“The problems that we have with this car are magnified in the rai🉐n, when it’s we💫t, and it’s a very, very hard car to drive in the rain.”
Versta🍨ppen attributꦍed his own off-track excursion to bottoming-out on his car.
Asked if he had th🐼e same problem, Hamilton replied: "I don’t really know. I will check on the data.
“I don’t want to blame it on that but the car was bottoming a lot and I had the locking. I d𝔉on’t know where the locking came from. My fault.”
Hamilton, who missed out on his fi💞rst pole position of 2022 by just 0.054s as he secured his best qualifying of the season on Saturday, felt he had the pace to challenge t✅he leaders had he not been stuck behind Sainz.
Despite Mercedes’🃏 struggles in the wet, Hamilton said he could still take some positives away from the wee𝄹kend.
“The car had its moments this weekend for sure where it was not too 🍸bad,” he added.
“It’s a bit hit and miss this car but for sure there’s positives to ta𒉰ke away from this weekend.
“It’s just a shameꦡ not to get more points for the team, but w🅺e’ll take it.”
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