Lewis Hamilton insists his hydraulic failure that led to his shock exit from Formula 1 German Grand Prix qua🅰lifying was not caused by running wide over the kerbs. ꦏ;

Hamilton was seen running wide at Turn 1 a🤡t Hockenheim in the closing stages of Q1 but he kept his foot pla🌞nted as he rejoined the track, causing his car to violently jolt over the bumps. Moments later his Mercedes came to a stop due to a hydraulic issue, signalling the end of his participation in qualifying. 

Wh𝓀en asked if the problem was caused by his off-track excursion, Hamilton re🍷plied: “No. I think it failed before then.

“I used the kerb the same every lap. I got to the kerb and I think the steering broke so that was obviously the issue.” 🍌;

As a result, Hamilton is du🅷e to start Sunday’s grand prix from 14th on the grid in the latest setback to his bid to claim a fifth world championship, with title rival Sebastian Vettel on pole and ꦡin prime position to extend his eight point advantage in the standings. 

But the Brit🥀on does not expect a repeat performance of his superb comeback drive at Silverstone will be possiꦇble in Germany.

“I’ll give everything tomorrow 🤡to see how high I can get up. But it’s not go🌳ing to be like Silverstone,” he said. “I’m sure I’ll be able to get through to some point but to where I don’t know.

“It definitely was a tough one. But these things happen and all you can do is gather your thoughts and [take] any of the negative energy and out it towards trying to ღdo your best the next 𒅌day. Live to fight another day. Another opportunity to rise.”

In contrast to his driver, Mercedes boss Toto Wol🌠ff believes the failure was trigg𒀰ered by Hamilton running over the Hockenheim kerbs, but added a full post-mortem will unearth the true cause. 

“The problem was that we seemed to damage a bit in the car jumping over the kerb and that caused the hydraulic leak,” Wolff explaineꦑd. “But we need to get the car back and see if that was really the case.”