Lewis Hamilton says this 12 months’s Ferrari is essentially the most tough automotive he’s ever pushed within the moist at Silverstone, after ending fourth within the British Grand Prix.
Ferrari’s hopes have been excessive going into qualifying on Saturday after spectacular tempo within the dry on each high and low gasoline, however Q3 in the end resulted in disappointment with Hamilton fifth and teammate Charles Leclerc sixth. Moist climate supplied a chance to make fast progress however Hamilton pale after placing early stress on eventual winner Lando Norris, and was unable to shut the hole to Nico Hulkenberg late on.
“Tough day I feel for everyone,” Hamilton mentioned. “Not the consequence that I hoped for, however received some factors nonetheless … It was essentially the most tough automotive I’ve pushed right here in these circumstances.
“I used to be placing [Norris] underneath lots of stress. I had an opportunity on Lando into Flip 15. After that I simply struggled to maintain up, the tires dropped off massively. The automotive was unbelievably difficult to drive.
“I feel, in the end, I discovered loads, there’s tons to take from the day. It is solely my second time driving within the moist on this automotive. I can not even categorical to you ways onerous it’s. It isn’t a automotive that likes these circumstances.
“However having numerous information to take from this, for me it is to sit down down with the folks which are designing the automotive for subsequent 12 months, as a result of there’s parts of this automotive that may go into the next 12 months.”
Ferrari staff principal Fred Vasseur admits the staff didn’t make the right calls with its technique both, though he factors on the market have been different elements that made decision-making a problem.
“You’ll be able to say now that it was most likely one lap too early [to fit slicks], as a result of he went straight in Flip 3 and 4 and he misplaced 4 or 5 seconds in these two corners,” Vasseur mentioned. “However [Fernando] Alonso pitted earlier than and he was already quicker in some corners than all the fellows on intermediates.
“It’s the form of scenario that in the event you wait the others do it earlier than you and it’s all the time too late and I feel it’s fairly simple to say after the race ‘first pit cease would have been higher one lap earlier than, second pit cease one lap later’.
“However actually on this, when you need to take the choice on the pit wall it’s all the time a difficult one since you all the time should anticipate. And on prime of that we misplaced the GPS of Lewis for the entire race and that meant we have been utterly blind and we didn’t know the place the automotive was. It was a tough one.”
