Lewis Hamilton has described his first season as a Ferrari driver as a “nightmare”.
The seven-time world champion was pressured to retire on the Sao Paulo Grand Prix after a messy race by which he suffered two collisions, a five-second time penalty and injury to the ground.
Contact with Williams’ Carlos Sainz brought on Hamilton to fall backwards, earlier than clipping the rear of Alpine’s Franco Colapinto. The accident pressured Hamilton to pit to have a brand new entrance wing fitted, and he was additionally given a penalty.
Hamilton was working final however was finally known as to the pits on lap 38 after receiving a penalty and retired from the race.
It was the newest poor lead to Hamilton’s memorable debut season with Ferrari.
“It is a nightmare. I have been residing that nightmare for some time,” Hamilton informed Sky Sports activities F1.
“The flip-flops, the ups and downs, between the dream of driving for this nice crew after which the nightmare of the consequence we skilled, it’s troublesome.
“However tomorrow we are going to bounce again, preserve coaching and proceed to work with the crew. We wished to get them some good factors this weekend, however subsequent race we are going to come again as robust as attainable and attempt to get it again.”
‘Troublesome’ weekend for Hamilton
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Hamilton has made encouraging progress for the reason that summer time break and is approaching the efficiency of teammate Charles Leclerc, however he’s but to attain a grand prix podium after his first 21 races as a Ferrari driver.
With Leclerc additionally struggling a DNF in Brazil, Ferrari has now fallen to fourth place within the constructors’ championship behind Mercedes and Purple Bull.
“It is really a little bit of a nuisance for him, as a result of up till this weekend he is been in nice type for the reason that summer time break,” stated former F1 driver and Sky Sports activities F1 analyst Karun Chandhok.
“He was even with Leclerc till the tip. In Mexico he received a penalty and it was irritating. This weekend he did not do effectively in any respect in qualifying.”
“We each struggled in Friday’s dash qualifying. His type up till this weekend has matched Charles, so I hope it is a one-off.”
Sky Sports activities F1 pundit and three-time W Collection champion Jamie Chadwick added:
“He has fallen down the order and is already thirteenth in qualifying, which isn’t what he anticipated.
“That is not why he joined Ferrari, it is not that he wished to come back to a circuit like this. It is not an excellent time.”
