Hungarian Grand Prix: Why did Lewis Hamilton say he was useless?
Team Manager Frederic Vasseur injected a perspective on Hamilton’s situation.
Vasseur, “When you are definitely the world champion seven times, your teammate is in the polar position and in the second quarter, this is a difficult situation.” He said.
As a result of the race, Vasseur pointed out that Ferrari was gambling on a single -hand strategy, starting from a hard tire on a track where the overtaking was hardly difficult and “worked”.
Orum I can understand Lewis’s frustration, dedi he said, “But that’s normal and back.”
Vasseur, who was effective in persuading Hamilton to leave Ferrari this season to participate in Ferrari, said that the results in Hungary look worse than the weekend.
Yes, when Hamilton was removed from the elimination after the second session, it was 0.247 seconds slower than Leclerc. However, Leclerc himself found hard to progress, and Hamilton had only 0.155 seconds of his teammate in the first session.
The last two races saw a stop in a positive momentum built after a difficult start to Hamilton’s Ferrari career.
Since Miami in early May, there were very little to choose between two drivers in the elimination area, and Hamilton is qualified from Leclerc a week before the elimination in three of the four races before Belgium.
Two different types of errors in the qualifying sessions for Sprint and Grand Prix in SPA seemed competitive when Hamilton had nothing else.
Hamilton matched for Leclerc in Belgium, but then a turn of a combination of a new brake material, a turn, saw it in the first session in the Sprint qualification, and the same thing, when the 180PH+ Sweves in EAU Rou wrongly evaluated the output of the Eau Rou, and the Grand Prix was a little out of the road boundaries.
Even if the problems in Belgium and Hungary need to adapt to a new car with many different features at the beginning of the season, Hamilton’s average elimination deficit to Leclerc is 0.146 seconds this year.
This is not what Hamilton expects from him, but many other people in Ferrari – and F1 see Leclerc as the fastest driver in a single round of the world.
Hamilton’s critics point to their struggle against George Russell in his last season in Mercedes last year.
The 40 -year -old boy found that the ground impact cars offered to F1 in 2022 did not fit the late brake style as well as previous generation cars. And this continues to be a mystery that cannot be adapted as expected, or to be a mystery as well as other drivers.
However, Vasseur rejected any idea that he could worry about Hamilton’s situation.
“He’s hard,” Vasseur said, “But I think that’s why the world champion is demanding with myself with the team, car, engine, mechanics, mechanics. But first of all he demands a lot with him.”
