Marko Hanželic
Lewis Hamilton he was, as he put it, stunned when the virtual safety car phase finally ruined his race. The driver Mercedesa namely, he could no longer go to the pits and the opportunity for a better ranking floated on water.
Po qualifications for oblivion, in which he was eliminated in Q1, Hamilton started the race on hard tires and in the good half of the race he was already in 6th place just behind his teammate Russell, and his accounts were cut short by malfunctions Fernanda Alonso in Daniel Ricciard, who stopped at the entrance to the pits.
It's at the end Hamilton managed to solve only one point, as the others were able to take advantage of the safety car phase as well as the VSC phase. “At the very beginning, I had some problems with the temperature of the tires, but the matter improved in the following rounds and I started to catch up with the competitors, who started to lose the tires of the middle mixture. It all changed the breakdowns after the XNUMXth lap when I didn’t have a chance to stop in the pits. In the end, despite the disappointment, I still have to be happy with the point, ” he said Hamilton.
