The reason for Lewis Hamilton’s “unfortunate” F1 Sao Paulo GP qualifying
Hamilton will start tomorrow’s sprint race from eighth on the grid, ahead of Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez and Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.
Conditions were ever-changing at Interlagos w🐼ith the track drying up until the start of Q3.
With the rain on the way, the top 10 contenders🌳 only had enough time to complete just one lap on the slicks.
This allowed Kevin Magnussen to take a shock pole position, benefitting from Haas pit lane position, ahead of reigning champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
Unfortunately for Hamilton, he was at the𒁃 back of the train ✤and could only manage eighth in the end.
“I justꦑ went out to see what the conditions were like but obviously it was properly wet. It’s motor racing.”
“Not really. It was difficult to see the conditions, it was difficult to see the rain drops and it was so dark. I was the last car out so I think I got the earliest part of the rain. I probably lost too much tempeꦛrature in the pit lane as well. Just a bit unfortunate. George did a great job and congratulations to Kevin.”
George Russell fared better in the second Merce🍒des, qualifying third.
It wasn’t an entirely smooth session for the British 💜driver, causing the only red flag of the session after running into the gravel trap at Turn 4.
Reflecting on his qualifying display, Russell ꦜsaid: “More mixed emotions because we were obviously one of the last cars to go out in qualifying and it was such a unique experience because as the lap progressed the rain was falling harder and harder. I got to the last corner and it was a lot wetter than the lap before and we had♌ to be very tentative.
"Massive congratulations to Kevin and Haas - this is what F1 and sport is about to have some crazy results like this but for us P3 is 🌃a good place to st൲art for the sprint.”
Russell admitted he was to blame when trying to recover from the run-offꦿ before being beached in the gravel💮 trap.
“What was going through my mind was a꧋ really bad headache📖,” he added. “'I've broken the headrest because my head was banging so much. It was a pretty unpleasant experience. I lost the rear and booted it, I wanted to do a 360 [spin] and dipped the rears in the gravel. Probably not the wisest choice I’ve ever made.”
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