Lewis Hamilton: Ferrari driver admits shock at Azerbaijan GP qualifying Q2 exit and questions tyre tactics in Baku | F1 News

Louis Hamilton admitted disappointed that it was a shock to see his front start for the weekend in Greater Azerbaijan, giving way to the twelfth place on the network, where Ferrari’s hopes of strong qualification in Baku with both drivers evaporated.

Hamilton had topped the training times on Friday before his colleague Charles Licertrick, then continued to run in the final practice from six to Saturday and then the first knockout phase of the qualifiers.

However, he ended up going out in the second quarter after failing in a fast enough time on the soft tires for the top of the 10 exchange.

Leclerc, who was running the media in the second session, advanced to the Q3 with its final embrace, although then, he quickly ranked to the tenth on the network through the breakdown in the early stages of the final stage.

Hamilton said to think about what happened to him Sky SPORTS F1: “It is clear that I am very disappointed.

“The car yesterday was a feeling of good condition, and today there was a trend that ended, which seemed to be the paper that it was our best place, and in the end …

“Our pace was good. We were advancing, and I really felt it, and I did not make any mistakes, and I didn’t see me to go out. We had no right frame in the end.

“It is difficult. Everyone was mainly in front of me the medium frame, but I lost an intermediate frame in the P2 due to the operating schedule, and this put me on the back foot.”

“We will take it internally” – how Hamilton Q2 has evaporated

The F1 teams faced a puzzle throughout the weekend in Baku about when to use the soft and medium frame with proving that the latter proves that it is an unusual, or even superior match, on the fastest supposed compound in certain conditions and on certain cars.

After the early red flag was operated in the second -fourth quarter of the six record during the chaotic and extended qualifiers – it was operated by a crash from Oliver Berman, and the session resumed with a stay of 11 minutes and none of the main drivers remained time in the schedule.

Leclerc was the first Ferrari car again on the track and turned medium tires, with Hamilton followed the back on the sofa.

But things began to go well at the beginning of her first roll at the time when Leclerc outperformed himself and ran widely in the first corner, while forcing subsequent yellow flags on Hamilton over the slowdown. Both drivers completed slow non -representative rolls as a result, which let them still without time in a real bosom.

After an enormous rolls, Ferrari drivers went to timing attempts again, and while Hamilton completed him to get the eighth fastest, LeClerc made another mistake by running in its third role.

Then Leclerc went to the drilling, and changed to another group of media, but Hamilton continued on the right track with the same soft tires. The British published his best time in the second quarter by his next attempt, but he was good enough for tenth place, which became 12 due to improvements from Fernando Alonso and Leclerc.

While at this point there was still two minutes around the clock, and therefore in theory enough time to complete another roll at the time, Hamilton incited at the end of his next tour to confirm his removal early.

In response to a question about whether he had a available average frame, so he could complete a “hot” living station as Leclerc did, Hamilton said: “Yes, but the option was not taken to take it.

“I wanted that, but they said that the warm -up was very long or something like that, so the time was exhausted and the fuel was running out.

“Not great, but we will take it inner.”

Nevertheless, Hamilton was still encouraging his performance this week, adding: “As I said, there were many positives from the end of this week.

“I really felt it. I frankly thought that I would shoot the pole today, so it is a kind of shock.

“I will take it on the chin and continue trying.”

Vasseur: The choice of tires was confused for everyone

When Hamilton’s comments were placed after the qualifiers, team manager Friedrich Vaswour said: “We aborted in the first lap and you do not feed the car to do 10 more rolls.

“Tires, frankly, they are some confusion, but I think it is a little disturbance for everyone.

“At the end of the day, the pole [from Max Verstappen in Q3] It was with the sofa. Carlos [Sainz, who qualified second] He was also shiny with the engraved medium, but then I think everyone is in the same position.

“I think it is important to put the tires in the right window more than choosing the frame.”

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