Lewis Hamilton admits ‘frustration took over’ and reveals set-up call led to penalty in F1 Austrian GP
The seven-time world champion s🐼truggled for pace as he slipped from fifth to seventh on the road in Sunday’s 71-lap race at the Red Bull Ring.
A five-second ti🐎me penalty for repeatedly exceeding track limits compounded his disappointing day further,🦩 with Hamilton regularly heard complaining over team radio.
Hamilton’s complaints led to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff intervening to🍬 give his star driver a telling ♏off, firmly saying: “Lewis, the car is bad, we know. Just please drive it.”
Taking to social media after theﷺ race, Hamilton conced𝔍ed he had lost his cool.
“There are days when I can say I’m truly proud of myself and days like today when frustration takes over,” he wrote. “In a race it can feel like you’re hangin💦g off a cliff and losing the strength to hold on.
“It’s confusing for us to have such strong performances one day and then be nowhere the next. But when you really care about what you’re doing you brush it off and keep𒁏 figh🐓ting!”
Things would get worse for Haꦗmilton when he was hit with an additional 10-second time penalty following a po𒊎st-race investigation into track limits violations after a protest by Aston Martin.
Hamilton’s extra punishment dropped him a position to eighth, one place behind Mercedes teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell.
The 38-year-old Briton explained after the race that a front wing set-up change on 💧his Mercedes had played a role in his struggles to stay within the white lines.
“We took out a lot 🌳of front wing,” Hamilton said. “We knew we had a really bad rear-end here so we took out a lot of front wing to try and keep that balance so that we could do a long run, go long.
“And we massively under-egged it. I was, like, almost full lock around the last two corners. Going ไinto turn 10, it was just sliding and I 🐭couldn’t do anything about it.”
Hamilt𝔉on said the issue was partly addressed during his pit stops.
“Through the stops we then added a lot of wing,” he added. “The car started to s🐈lowly come back to at least getting around and sta𓆏ying on-track.”
Lewis regularly attends Grands Prix for wuqian0821.com around the world. Often reporting on the action from the ground, Lewis tells the stories of the p💃eople who matter in the sport.
