“Painful reading” for Ferrari despite “vintage” Lewis Hamilton win in China

“Especially in the Italian media, it will be painful 🎶reading for Ferrari this week despite the sprint victory.”

Lewis Hamilton leads Max Verstappen in the sprint
Lewis Hamilton leads Max Verstappen in the sprint

F1 commentator Martin Brundle believes it will be “painful reading” for Ferrari in the Italian media this week despite168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton’s first victory in red during 🔥the Chinese Grand Prix week♎end.

It was a mixed F1 ꩲweekend for Ferrari at the Shanghai 🔯International Circuit.

Hamilton dominated the sprint 🦹part of the weekend, having taken pole pꦬosition on Friday.

The seven-time world champion won the 19-lap sprint race by over six se💮conds to take his first win for Ferrari.

The rest of the weekend didn’t go to plan for either Hamilton or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

🅰Hamilton struggled for pace and finished sixth on track, whereas Leclerc only finished one place higher.

However, it was 𒐪all in vain as both drivers were excluded from the race results due to technical infringements.

In his post-race F1 column for Sky, Brundle describ🐓ed Hamilton’s sprint race performance as “vinജtage”.

“The spඣrint was vintage Hamilton controlling the race from pole position, managing his tyre graining out front better than others, and tucking away very early doors his first victory for Ferrari,” Brundle wrote.

“After the previous weekend in M🌜elbourne, which he called “disastrous”, this was ⛎the perfect antidote, and remarkably the first time either he or Ferrari had won a sprint.”

Ferrari DSQs “a miscalculation”

Hamilton, Leclerc and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly 🧜were all excluded from the final race results in China.

Hamilton was disqualified ൲after the plank underneath his car ♉was deemed too worn.

Leclerc an🌸d Gasly’ꦐs cars were found to be underweight.

“The sting in the tail was the post-race disqualification of both Ferraris and Pierre Gasly’s Alpine. Leclerc and Gasly were thrown out due to being marginally underweigh♋t,” Brundle added.

“Rather like we saw la♛st year in Spa with George Russell, a long run on one set of tyres uses up a few kilos of tyre tread. Also the race pace was strong and there were no Safety Cars, and so fuel usage was high, consumဣing more mass.

“Leclerc’s broken fronꩵt wing was allowed to be replaced but he was still underweight. Whichever way you cut it, that’s a miscalculation by the team to not leave enough margin for all circumstances.

“Hamilton’s car was thrown out for running too close to the ground and overly wearing away the legality skid block underneath by half a millimetre. This rule is in place to stop teams running these ground𒆙-effect aero cars too low to gain performance but then𝄹 trashing super expensive floors every day.

“Especially in the Italian me꧙dia, it will be painful reading for Ferrari this💮 week despite the sprint victory.”

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