Lewis Hamilton reacts to Ferrari debut: “A lot worse than I thought”
“It went a lot worse than I thought it would go. The car was 🌟really, really hard to drive today.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton admitted that his first race as a Ferrari F1 driver went “worse than I though♓t it would go” after finishing 1⛎0th at the Australian Grand Prix.
Ha♔milton struggled for pace in the season-opening race in Melbourne, ultimately finishing just inside the points at Albert Park.
The seven-time world champion made a good start from eighth on the grid but lost out at the first corner when battling teaꦛmmate Charles Leclerc.
Hamilton dropped behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Albon, who he couldn’t get past.
When on dry tyres, Ferrari gambled by ꧃keeping both drivers out when the raiಞn came out.
🎀They briefly held a 1-2 before being forced to stop for intermediates, dropping both drivers well down the order.
Leclerc overtook Hamilton after ꦛthe Safety Car restart.
Hamilton then lost another place on the final lap to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri.
Reflecting on🤡 the race to Sky Sports, Hamilton conced﷽ed it was a “very tricky” afternoon.
“It’s very tri🀅cky,” Hamilton said. “It went a lot worse than I thought it would go. The car was really, really hard to drive today. For me, I am just grateful I kept it out of the wall because that’s really where it wanted to go most of the time. A lot to take from it.
“Also just getting✤ acclimatised with the new power unit in wet conditions, all of the settings it requires are different. Different way of driving. A different setup on the steering wheel.
“I h🌼ung out as long as I could, got in the lead at one point. Just the guidance in terms of how much rain was coming, which was missing there. We missed ou﷽t.”
Confusing Ferrari strategy in Australia
Hamilton and Leclerc were left to rue poor strategy choices on the pit wall as they came away from the weekend witꦯh just five points between♑ them.
Ferrari and Racing Bulls didn’t react 𒁏to the heavy rain, keeping their drivers out on slick tyres.
Ferrari thought that the rain would only last a🍰 lap at a particular part of the circuit, meaning tha𒅌t staying out on dry tyres could have paid off.
Speakꩵing of the strategy calls, Hamilton added: “We try to but I mean the information I got was it was just a short shower, real quick🧔. At the time, it was only in the last corner.
“For me I was like the rest of the track was dry. I can keep⭕ this on track if that’🌃s all that’s coming but more came.”

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