Lewis Hamilton expressed relief after a strong weekend at the United States Grand Prix left him feeling that he has \u201cfinally\u201d made a much-needed breakthrough with Ferrari.<\/p>\n
The seven-time World Champion may not have achieved his goal of a maiden podium with Ferrari<\/a> at the Circuit of The Americas, but a pair of fourth place finishes across the Sprint and Grand Prix<\/a> marked an uptick in performance following a recent dip in results.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m finally feeling like I\u2019m on top of the car,\u201d said Hamilton<\/a>. \u201cI think we still have some improvements we could make. We can definitely extract more, particularly on my side, because Qualifying wasn\u2019t as good as I had hoped and the start wasn\u2019t great.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are always areas to improve, but it\u2019s positive going into the next race, so I hope we can have an even better weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n After dropping back from Lando Norris<\/a> and Charles Leclerc<\/a> in the opening stages on Sunday, Hamilton recovered and passed his team mate for third shortly before Leclerc, who had started on soft tyres, pitted.<\/p>\n Going longer relegated Hamilton back to fourth, and he was unable to close the margin for a second time, but a strong team result of third and fourth closed the gap to Mercedes in the Teams\u2019 Championship, leaving the 40-year-old satisfied with his work.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can definitely take a lot of positives,\u201d he added. \u201cJust the way we have extracted points this weekend \u2013 given we haven\u2019t upgraded the car, we are still somehow just there or thereabouts.<\/p>\n \u201cI got a bad start, managed to still get a good Turn 1, which then recovered the start. I was kind of in the fight at the beginning and got Charles before his stop but lost a bit of time there to Lando.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter my stop, I came out so far behind, so the strategy wasn\u2019t ideal, but a perfect result in terms of points for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton expressed relief after a strong weekend at the United States Grand Prix left him feeling that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-227385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227385","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=227385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}