Lewis Hamilton described himself as “completely ineffective” after dropping out of qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix in Q2, whereas teammate Charles Leclerc took pole place.
Ferrari secured its first pole place of the season on the Hungaroring as Leclerc beat the 2 McLarens, however Hamilton was unable to hitch that combat after lacking out by simply 0.015s in Q2. Hamilton was 0.247s slower than Leclerc in that a part of the session and defined that his radio message of “each time” was aimed toward himself.
“It’s simply me each time,” Hamilton informed Sky Sports activities. “Yeah, I’m ineffective. Completely ineffective.”
“The crew has no downside. You’ve seen the automotive is on pole, so… We most likely want to alter driver.”
Whereas Hamilton was downbeat, his crew principal Fred Vasseur was way more philosophical when it got here to the margins between the 2 drivers because the session progressed.
“For certain it was by far one of the best session of the season, but it surely was a really troublesome one and you need to hold this in thoughts,” Vasseur informed SiriusXM. “We weren’t that far-off from having the 2 vehicles out in Q2, and we had been in a position to come again and to place every little thing collectively and do some steps for Q3.
“Nevertheless it was an enormous problem for us – for everyone I believe. Circumstances had been altering massively from Q1 to Q2 with some drops [of rain] and a bit extra windy on the finish. After which the window for the tires is so slim that in case you are a bit out then you might be useless. It’s a problem and for certain we all know that when the situations are like this, it’s very, very tough to place every little thing collectively.
“It’s higher to begin from pole in Budapest than from P12, for certain, however I believe the evaluation is an effective one that you simply don’t have to check P1 and P12, you need to evaluate one tenth in Q2. That is extra the difficulty, as a result of Charles was not that far-off from being out in Q2, and we now have to maintain this in thoughts in our evaluation of the day.
“However it’s like it’s, and for certain we now have to collectively do a greater job to not be uncovered in Q1 or Q2. And the truth that we had to make use of a second set in Q1 additionally was not a very good begin to the session, as a result of you then solely have one set in Q2 and it’s way more troublesome.”
