The Sprint format seems to succeed in Lewis Hamilton since his arrival at Ferrari. Already winner in China, the Briton has taken advantage of the changing track conditions to go back from seventh place to the podium at the end of the Sprint race.
However, he could have been trapped in his grid round when Ferrari decided to send his two pilots on the track in intermediaries while the rain continues to fall on the track. Charles Leclerc went to aquaplanning in the middle of a straight line and destroyed his car.
During the after -race press conference, the Briton said that he almost had the same fate: “I was just behind Charles. I had exactly the same thing as him but the car stopped just before the wall. »» Already, just after the event, he had not failed to underline on the radio that he did not understand the decision of the Muret of the stands to send the two pilots without rain tires.
Once the race ends up being launched, he was not satisfied with the behavior of his car in the first phase of the race. He therefore waited for the track to be dry enough to switch to medium tires: “It’s been a few laps that I thought about it and I finally decided to come back because I was not going anywhere at that time. »» His rhythm thus allowed him to take the best on the two Mercedes pilots and to go beyond Max Verstappen, certainly slowed down by a front aileron damaged by his hanging in the channel of the stands with Kimi Antonelli.
Despite this new podium, he is still not satisfied with the behavior of his car: “We have a good aerodynamic support but we cannot extract the full potential of the car. We should be closer to Red Bull and McLaren. We have to raise our level of play. “
Depending on the weather conditions for this afternoon, we will see if it is able to do better than the seventh time yesterday.
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