Lewis Hamilton’s penultimate race as a Mercedes driver marked one other low in his remaining season on the crew as he picked up two penalties and completed outdoors the factors.
His race received off to a poor begin as he dropped again three locations on the opening lap regardless of shifting from his grid field too quickly. That earned him his first penalty of the day.
“It was a reasonably dangerous race for me total, however these items occur,” Hamilton admitted. “It began off badly with my false begin which was my fault and resulted in a penalty which I served throughout my cease.”
The stewards mentioned Hamilton was “solely very barely forward of the beginning sign [so] the minimal penalty was utilized.”
Hamilton suffered an extra setback when his front-left tyre deflated. “I had the puncture which was simply unlucky,” mentioned Hamilton, “adopted by the pit lane dashing which was on me, too.”
The stewards discovered Hamilton exceeded the 80kph pit lane pace restrict by 12.5kph. They handed him a drive-through penalty. As along with his leap begin, Hamilton incurred no penalty factors.
At one level in the course of the race Hamilton advised his crew he needed to retire. As a substitute he pressed on and took the chequered flag twelfth out of the 15 finishers.
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“The automobile had plenty of understeer as we speak as a result of we didn’t have sufficient entrance wing [angle] within the set-up,” Hamilton defined. “I gave it my finest shot, nevertheless it all appeared to go downhill from the beginning.”
Subsequent week’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix can be Hamilton’s remaining look for Mercedes, the crew he joined 12 years in the past. He’s eager to depart the crew with a extra satisfying race.
“This race weekend hasn’t been nice however now we have one other subsequent week the place we are able to attempt to end a bit higher and I hope we do have a greater consequence,” he mentioned.
“These final races don’t have an effect on the entire nice issues now we have carried out collectively as a crew. Races are a rollercoaster journey of feelings, I’ve had nice races in my life and dangerous races too. In the end, it’s not the way you fall it’s the way you get again up and we are going to strive once more subsequent week.”
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