Lewis Hamilton has remained coy over changes made to his Ferrari as he returned to Q3 at the Dutch Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton qualified seventh fastest for the Zandvoort race, just 0.050s slower than team-mate Charles Leclerc as he bounced back from his dismal effort in Hungary last time out, which left him claiming he was “useless” and Ferrari should sign “another driver.”<\/p>\n
At Zandvoort, Hamilton has shown flashes of pace, but was not able to get an optimum qualifying simulation in during practice after a spin, having gone purple in Sector 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The seven-time champion has griped throughout the season of not feeling comfortable with the setup and balance of his SF-25 machine, but hinted at a change made before the weekend, which has unlocked more feeling, although he wouldn’t be drawn further.<\/p>\n
“We made progress today, and had a slightly different approach into the weekend, with some tweaks even before I got here, and then through the weekend, it has been a lot smoother,” Hamilton told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Yesterday, the car was a bit unpredictable, and we made some changes, but we were looking for progress, and I feel like I’ve had that this weekend. I’ve not been in Q3 for some time, so I am grateful for that.<\/p>\n
“It is definitely encouraging on my side of the garage to have a better result, because the boys in the garage deserve it to be there or thereabouts.<\/p>\n
“Something has changed, which has enabled me to start on the right foot, on a better foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We saw my first lap [in practice] was quickest and the next lap was a spin, but the car, the set-up change, worked well, and it has not been up and down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It has been quite stable, we’ve just made small tweaks, and now I’m trying to gain more confidence in the car.”<\/p>\n
“But of course, we’re not where we want to be, seven-tenths of a second on a track like this is a huge amount, so we’ve got to understand why that is, because Charles was P1 in the last race, but naturally I still have a deficit and we’ve had it all year long.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has remained coy over changes made to his Ferrari as he returned to Q3 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-108003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}