Lewis Hamilton admits that she crashes from Dutch Grand Prix, was a painful way to put an end to what a weekend of progress had been for him and Ferrari.
Hamilton saw a tough race in Hungary on his way to the summer holidays, but he was at the pace with Charles Leclerc in Zandvoort, who only qualified 0.05s behind his teammate. When he ran on George Russell in the race in the race, Hamilton presented an undercut after Leclerc Putte, but slid in turn 3 and hit the barrier, retired for the first time in his Ferrari career.
‘No, I didn’t do that [necessarily] I want the undermill at the time, “said Hamilton.” I just said that we probably had to try to undermine them at some point. I wanted to go for a long time, so my tires still felt good. I just have … yes, took me with a complete surprise what happened; I lost the back the bank, and that was it.
“Apart from that, it has been a really solid weekend. I feel that I have made progress, just in general, and my approach and everything. Nothing away is absolutely painful.”
Although Hamilton says he is disappointed not to score points for Ferrari this weekend, he says that the crash will not hit his self -confidence because he thinks it is a rare mistake from his position.
“I feel okay,” he said. “I am sad for the team, because I really wanted to get those points for the team today, and I honestly felt that I had the pace in the cars for me. I hoped to see real progress in the race.
“Feel mentally good. I felt many positive points, I felt that I was making progress, I was catching the car first. It is difficult to have a result such a result, but I have been racing for so long. I have known God how many races. You can probably count on one hand of that kind of incident.”
Teammate Leclerc also had a tough afternoon because he was later removed in the race by Mercedes Rookie Kimi Antonelli, while the pair of moisture about what was in fifth place after pit stops.
“It’s a mistake by Kimi,” said Leclerc. “I think you should be very aggressive to catch up on a song like this, which I think he was trying to be aggressive. Maybe it was a bit too much. He continued my left side, and that was the end of my race. It is disappointing …
“Wouldn’t it describe Rookie error. I think it’s just a mistake that can happen in the first year or the fifth year. Again, as I said, on a song like this, you can be aggressive, but that was too much.”
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