Lewis Hamilton says the car issue that dogged his Ferra🍎ri during the F1 Spanish Grand Prix “massively hindered” ♌his performance.

After finishing a disappointing sixth in Barcelona, seven-time world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Hamilton described his race as being “the worst I’ve experienced” in a Ferrari, having uncharacteristically struggled f🌄or pace.

Hamilton ran as high as fourth in the early stages before his performance dropped off, resulting in him being moved aside for his faster teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

He was also overtaken by Sauber’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg following a late Safety Car and finished seventh on the road, before being promoted one place thanks to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s penalty.

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur revealed after the race that both Hamilton and Leclerc su🌺ffered issues on their cars, but would not disclose further details.

Hamilton was tight-lipped when he was asked about the problem ahead of this weekend’s F1 C💛anadian Grand Prix, but confirmed it did impact h♋is performance.

“Massively, massively. Unfortunately the team don’t want us to talk too much about it but we both had issues that were hindering us massively f💙rom half-way through the race already,” Hamilton said.

“What I didn’t know was if I had that problem but obviously I said on the radio that it was the worst feeling car that I’d ever had and💙 it truly was with that issue. 

"At the end of the race I was like ‘jeez, I have never exp♚erienced something this bad for such a long time in a race’.”

Hamilton admits car issue a ‘relief’

Hamilton was visibly dejected after 👍a challenging race in Spain and apologised to Sky Sports F1’s Rachel Brookes for his downbeat interv♏iew.

The 40-year-old Brito🦂n admitted it was a “relief” for him to learn about the problem affecting his car during a team debrief after the TV interviews took place.

“It wasn’t until after the 🌃TV interviews I get back to the engineers and we find out there was an issue,” he explained. “So it was a bit of a relief to hear that because I definitely didn’t feel so terrible afterwards.”