Lewis Hamilton admits ‘frustration took over’ and reveals set-up call led to penalty in F1 Austrian GP
The seven-time world champion struggled for pace as he slipped from fifth to seventh on the road in Sunday’s 71-lap racꦏe at the R🔥ed Bull Ring.
A five-second time penalty for repeatedly exceeding track limits compounded his disappointing day further, with Hamilton regularly heard coꦰmplaining over team radio.
Hamilton’s complaints led to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff intervening to give his star driver a telling off, f𓆉irmly saying: “Lewis, the car is bad, we know. Just please drive it.”
Taking to social media after the r🌳ace, Hamilton conceded he had lost his cool.&nb🌜sp;
“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 hanging off a cliff and losing the strength to hold on.
“It’s confusing for us to have such strong performances one day and then ꦬbe nowhere the next. But when you really care about what you’re doing you brush it off and keep fighting!”
Things would get worse for Hamilton when he was hit with💝 an additional 10-second time penalty following a post-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 Merced✨es had played a role in his struggles to stay within the w൩hite 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 into turn 10, it was just ꦯsliding and I couldn’t do anything about it.”
Hamilton said the issue was partly addressed during his pit stops.&♛nbsp;
“Through the stops we then added a lot of wing,” he added. “The car started to slowly 💯come back to at least getting around and staying on-track.”
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