Lewis Hamilton’s season-long struggles along with his automotive in qualifying continued on the Mexican Grand Prix.
The Mercedes driver’s sixth place on the grid is 11 positions increased than he began final weekend in Austin. Nevertheless, he was as soon as once more disenchanted to find the passable stability he present in remaining follow abandoned him when qualifying started.
“The automotive felt good in P3, I didn’t change something after which qualifying simply utterly turned on its head,” Hamilton informed the official F1 channel. “Positively a irritating session, however that’s each qualifying session I’ve had this 12 months.”
Hamilton began in the identical place final 12 months and rose by means of the sphere to complete second. Nevertheless he mentioned “there’s no means we’re going to be doing that this weekend with the automotive that we’ve, I don’t suppose.”
Whereas Hamilton is constant to make use of Mercedes’ newest ground improve, his workforce mate George Russell is utilizing the earlier specification, because of his crashes over the last two weekends. He beat Hamilton to fifth on the grid by nearly three-tenths of a second.
“Possibly George is extra comfy on the older package deal, I don’t know, we’ll see,” mentioned Hamilton. “So we’ll get good readings of which is finest for the long run.”
Russell was happy along with his qualifying efficiency after badly damaging his automotive when he went off at flip eight on Friday.
“I’m actually pleased with the restoration,” he mentioned. “Clearly, we’re nonetheless on the previous bits from 12 races in the past. My lap felt actually, actually sturdy. Tremendous-happy with it, only a tenth from P3.
“After yesterday, we’d have taken that.”
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