Friday to forget
Yesterday at the press conference Lewis Hamilton said he was dreaming of a victory at Zandvoort, on one of the few tracks where he has never won in his career. However, the Englishman’s weekend has not taken a good turn so far: in today’s Sprint Qualifying, the #44 of Ferrari did not go beyond a disappointing seventh position which complicates the hopes for tomorrow’s short race.
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It is not clear whether this obvious step back compared to this morning’s FP1 could be related to the new floor, fitted by Ferrari mechanics on the two SF-26s just before qualifying.
“It was not a good session unfortunately – Hamilton admitted to Sky Sports F1 microphones at the end of the day – but it went like this. The first FP1 session seemed good, we made some small adjustments to the car but then when we went to qualifying it was a total disaster, we need to understand what went wrong and we will do our best tomorrow“.
Regarding his hopes for the Sprint – and possible adjustments to the car ahead of the ‘real’ Qualifying – Hamilton did not want to commit: “We will examine the data and make a decision. We just need to examine the data and understand, analyzing the situation, why [this Qualifying] did not go well”.
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