Mercedes drivers were very disappointed after a difficult qualifyingGeorge Russell blamed himself for crashing in the first qualifying session, while Lewis Hamilton was a little disappointed not to be able to fight for the top places.
Afteran emotional victory at Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton hoped to continue his upward trajectory in Hungary, where he has already won eight times.
However, the seven-time world champion seemed to struggle with his W15 balance in practice and was also slow in qualifying.”It’s very difficult this weekend to find a balance with the car where it’s not nimble,” he noted. “The heat probably made things worse, but even with today’s cooler conditions we still struggled.”Getting the tires to work was a real challenge and we couldn’t get them where we wanted them. If we had optimized everything, we probably could have gone a tenth or two faster, but we didn’t.
To challenge. the post today \ n” Tomorrow, like Friday, will be very hot. That makes it a challenge, but everyone is in the same boat. It’s interesting to see where our speed is compared to the people around us.
Our long run pace in practice was solid, but we’ll have to wait and see where we fall tomorrow,” said Hamilton.
Histeam-mate George Russell had a terrible start to qualifying as he failed to get any. steps from W15 in several on the push lapnHe bounced back after red flags on a wetter track and improved further during his first stint in the dry, leaving him only P17 in today’s Mogyoród F1 race.”We didn’t do a good enough job today. I didn’t put together a lap earlier in Q1 and that left us vulnerable close to the limit.
After the red flag we were on the wettest track and then we didn’t have enough fuel for the push lap because it was the driest”We should have held comfortably and it’s frustrating. We shouldn’t be in that situation and that’s my problem.
We’ll go over it tonight to understand what happened, what went wrong, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.P17 is obviously not where we should qualify. We should have a car to fight for points tomorrow though.
We showed good pace during training and our long-term pace was encouraging. Tomorrow is a new day and we’ll see what we can achieve,” said Russell..
