'S*** happens’ - Lewis Hamilton reflects on shock Q1 exit after “massive changes”
Lewis Hamilton reflects on his shock early qualifying exit at the F1 Cဣhineꦆse Grand Prix.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton says he made “massive” set-up changes to his Mercedes F1 car before qual🍎ifying a lowly 18th at th✅e Chinese Grand Prix.
The seven-time world champion had a horrible qualifying in Shanghai and was knocked out in Q1 with a time good en🍌ough for only 18th on the grid.
His Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell took eighth as ✨he outqualifed Hamilton for the fourth tꦓime this season.
After suffering his first Q1 exit in two years, Hamilton revealed he had made big changes to his car after finishing second to Red Bull’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen in Saturday morning’s sprint race.
“I just struggled. I made m💫assive cha🌠nges into qualifying. It wasn’t too bad in some places. I couldn’t stop in Turn 14. It is what it is,” Hamilton told Sky Sports F1.
"This morning, George and I had very similar cars, but this afternoon we’re trying to experiment💟 still with the car so I went one way a long way and he went the other way just to see if we could find anything.
"That’s what we need t🧜o do at the moment but it didn’t work. I’ll give it my best shot…18th is pretty bad.
“When I wa💜s making the set-up changes I was like ‘it can’t get ✃any worse, surely’ and it did. S*** happens."
Hamilton has often attributed experimental set-up changes to his poor qualifying results this year, something which former teammate and title rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg criticised.
“Geo♊rge has mostly been in front of Lewis. 4-1 now, in qualifying,” the 2016 🍎world champion said during Sky’s F1 coverage of qualifying.
“Lewis tends to say ‘yeah but we have different set-ups and su🍌ch a big car difference’. That is hi🐼s excuse, so far this year.
“Each time he says that, George s🅺ays: ‘The last time I checked, th൩e cars are pretty similar…’
“He has gone again, for that. So it’s๊ interesting.”
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