Lewis Hamilton has revealed his session-ending issue during sprint qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps was a career first for him.<\/p>\n
Hamilton suffered an early exit during the session after spinning at the penultimate corner on his final SQ1 attempt.<\/p>\n
The seven-time champion ended the session in 18th place, marking a disastrous outing for the Ferrari driver during a weekend in which he is running a new rear suspension.<\/p>\n
When quizzed over what happened at the last chicane, Hamilton said: \u201cI spun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton was then asked if it was rear locking, to which he nodded: \u201cMmhmm.\u201cThe first time, I think, in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton offered little insight into the car’s feeling with the rear suspension upgrade in play.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot great, not great,\u201d he said in response to being asked how the car felt on the track. \u201cThere’s not really a lot to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton then shook his head when queried if the car had become more drivable.<\/p>\n
Having endured a difficult opening day of on-track action at Spa, Hamilton is hopeful he can turn around his fortunes during qualifying on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow is a new day. I’m massively frustrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of work has gone in, and to be there is not really great. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s early exit on Friday marked the first time this year he has failed to advance out of the opening qualifying segment with Ferrari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has revealed his session-ending issue during sprint qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps was a career first for him.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","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=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}