Miami Sprint Qualifying, Hamilton only 7th
Once again, Ferrari fails to put everything together at the crucial moment of qualifying. And so, after leading the only practice session, SQ1 and SQ2 with Charles Leclerc, the Red car doesn’t even make it into the top three in the fight for the Miami Sprint pole: while the Monegasque can at least settle for P4, Lewis Hamilton even joins Franco Colapinto in the fourth row.
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Seventh place clearly does not satisfy the Brit, who can also complain about a problem in the gear shift at the last braking: it costs him the 3rd row, but regardless #44 cannot be satisfied with the result of the last time attack.
Hamilton’s words
“I didn’t really know what to expect. I hoped it would go better, but the car didn’t give me great feelings, honestly“, this was his immediate comment.
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“I thought we would be stronger than we were today“, he added. “We will do some work during the evening to try to understand why we weren’t so fast. But I want to remain optimistic, we can be much higher, today didn’t go well“.
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