Lewis Hamilton not looking to ‘pull out miracles’ in US GP from fifth
Lewis Hamilton says he is not “looking to pull out miracles” from fiﷺfth as he bids to clinch the 2019 Formula 1 world championship in the United States Grand Prix.
Hamilton is 74 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas an🐲d will wrap up his sixth drivers’ world title in Austin with a top eight finish during Sunday’s 56-lap race.
Lewis Hamilton says he is not “looking to pull out mir✤acles” from fifth as he bids to 🌠clinch the 2019 Formula 1 world championship in the United States Grand Prix.
Hamilton is 74 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and will wrap up his sixth dr🉐ivers’ world title in Austin with a top eight finish during Sunday’s 56-lap race.
The Briton will start from a lowly fifth after struggling in qualifying, while Bottas pipped Ferrari’s Sebas﷽tian Vettel to pole posi𒊎tion around the Circuit of the Americas to score Mercedes’ first pole since July’s Ger💙man Grand꧅ Prix.
“I don’t look at this raไce as a particularly important race, it’s as important as any other race,” Hamilton🃏 insisted.
“So it doesn’t stand out individually as an i🌼mportant race. There’s still two more after thi🧜s.
"Naturally I approach it exactly the same, I’m not looking to pull out miracles. Things happen for a reason, it is a lesson learned and I’ll try to see if I༺ can turn a negative into a positive that’s for sure.
Hamilton conceded after qualifying that has lack of pace had been 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“my fault” and he went on to explain where his Q3 laps fell apart d💮uring his media call on Saturday evening.
“The car was fine,” Hamilton said. “The first lap started off really well and then I lost time on the exit of Turn 11, then Turn 13, then Turn 14 and it 🦩just kept going.
“I was up I think seven or eighth tenths on my p🌊revious lap and then it came down to five and th🌼en it went up to six and then it came down to five.
“♉So I lost a bunch of time throughout the lap. The next one I clipped the curb into Turn 8 and the lap was done after that.”
Mercedes𓂃 boss Toto Wolff said it was a relief for his side to get its first pole position in four months at COTA.
"You can see that the top cars are all very close, so I think we did some really good work from Friday to today, and Valtteri droveꦑ a very g꧟ood lap," Wolff said after qualifying.
"But then it’s not perfect because we have a car on pole and a car in fifth and we need to figure out how to overcome tܫha𓃲t."
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