Lewis Hamilton will only trigger fromeighth position on the starting grid for tomorrow’s Monaco GP. The seven-time world champion on the winding streets of the Principality once again proved that he struggled a lot behind the wheel of the Mercedes W13 and was beaten not only by teammate George Russell, sixth at the end of Q3, but also by his old rival Fernando Alonso, surprisingly able to qualify his Alpine in seventh place, a ‘sandwich’ between the two silver arrows.
At the end of qualifying Hamilton did not even complain too much for the Red flag who put an early end to the session, admitting that the gap from the top positions, which he was used to occupying until last year, would have been very high anyway. “The red flags cost me the last lap – admitted the seven-time world champion – but I don’t think the result would have been much different. In hindsight I should have done the first lap with new tires and I didn’t, after starting the lap with the wrong engine mode. But Monaco is like that. This was an unfortunate session“.
The Stevenage native then again highlighted the disappointing performance of his car, complaining about the usual hopping. “The car is pretty bad and we have to take big risks to get closer to the times of the cars ahead of us. We improved the car compared to yesterday and we got some closer, but even if we did a perfect lap, I think we would still be six tenths of a second behind, which is a considerable gap. Now we have to see how the weather will be tomorrow and try to take a few steps forward to move up the rankings “he concluded.
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