168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has revealed he “battled as hard as I could” to start the F1 Singapore Grand Prix on medium tyres, having been left “perplexed” by Mercedes’ strategy plan🦩s.

Lining up third on the grid and alongside teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell who qualified fourth, Hamilton start🌜ed on the red-walled soft tyres, with all his rivals around him all starting on mediums.

Th♛e seven-time world champion was left frustrated with his strategy as he slipped to a sixth-placed finish at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, and fumed over team radio that Mercedes were “killing" him with the offset.

Both Mercedes drivers were pulled from their media obligations following the race after team principal Toto Wolff reve♑aled they had suf♈fered from “borderline heatstroke”.

But speaking at a Petronas sponsor event💝 in Kuala Lumpur, Ha🦂milton admitted Mercedes’ decision to start on softs “didn’t make sense to me”.

“It wasn’t fun,” Hamilton said of the race. “We sat in our meeting in the morning ah🦂ead of the race and the night before they had already mentioned that they would like to split the 🅰cars.

“I was a bit perple꧃xed by it, because in the past when we’ve ever been in that position, if George has qualified well, like he normally does and💮 I’m out of the top 10 or something, then we would split the strategies.

“But when we were so close it didn’t make sen🌞se to me and so I battled as hard as I could to fight to go onto the medium tyre😼 but the team continued to suggest that I start on the soft.

“Whe💮n they🥃 took the tyre blankets off and everyone was on mediums…”

Russell, sat alongside Hamil🧸ꦍton, interjected to say: “When I saw that I was thinking ‘Lewis won’t be happy’.”

“I was so angry. Alr🦋eady from that moment I am frustrat𓂃ed,” Hamilton continued.

“I tried my best to keep up with the guys ahead but they were too fast. The꧋n I just tried to make that tyre last as🎃 long as I could.

“I had to stop on Lap 17 and I knew from that moment that the race was done for me because the hard tyre♕ was going to be a struggle in that heat.

“We’d been struggling with the balance of the car all weekend. We’d been changing so many different things. We had a great 🥂qualifying, but unfortunately the race was too much of a struggle for us.”

Wolff conceded that Mercedes’ strategic call was the “𒅌wrong decision”.

"We took a decision based on historic Singapore races where it is basically a procession, Monaco-like, aꦛnd that the soft tyre would give him an opportunity at the start,” Wolff tol🌠d media in Singapore.

"That wa𝔍s pretty much the only overtaking opportunity. That was the wrong decision that we all took together jointly.

"It felt like a good offset but with the rear tyre deg that we had it was just one way🧔 and that was backwards. So, there was a logic behind it but obviously, it was contrary to what we should’ve decided, but it doesn’t hide away from the fact that the c🐻ar is too slow.

"It was a really painful evening. It is not about when you look at the positions, fourth and sixth, that is not good, especially when you are starting third and four💛th.”