{"id":273598,"date":"2025-11-09T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273598\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:50:36","slug":"hamilton-feeling-mental-struggles-after-f1-brazil-gp-q2-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273598\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton feeling mental struggles after F1 Brazil GP Q2 exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton<\/a> admitted to mental struggles after another disappointing Formula 1 outing as he suffered a Q2 exit at the Brazilian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The Ferrari driver will start 13th for Sunday\u2019s race at Interlagos as he simply struggled for pace<\/a>, while team-mate Charles Leclerc<\/a> qualified up in third.<\/p>\n

It continued a disappointing day for Hamilton who only finished seventh in the sprint race<\/a>, amid an underwhelming season as he is sixth in the championship and 66 points behind Leclerc.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was visibly downbeat during his post-qualifying media session in Sao Paulo and when asked how he\u2019s feeling mentally, he said: \u201cNot great, not great. I’ll just do what I can tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seven-time world champion was extremely short of words, but did reveal that his struggles with maintaining tyre temperatures were behind his early exit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the execution in terms of the times we got out and everything is fine, it’s just the rears are at a place that I can’t get to temperature for them to stop that,\u201d said Hamilton.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis <\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari<\/p>\n

Photo by: Zak Mauger \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He added that he \u201cjust couldn\u2019t get the tyres working\u201d and although Hamilton has produced impressive comeback drives in the past, the 40-year-old is not confident for Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can’t overtake,\u201d he claimed. \u201cI’m not expecting anything to be honest. But we’ll see what happens, it’s another write-off weekend I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leclerc was more upbeat though, as he qualified just three tenths off polesitter Lando Norris<\/a> with Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/a> splitting the pair, 0.120s ahead of the Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n

That was despite a poor sprint qualifying result on Friday, as Leclerc was down in eighth with Hamilton 11th, so the Monegasque was buoyed by the comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t want to over exaggerate the turnaround that we’ve had because we are only speaking about a tenth and a half, maybe,\u201d said Leclerc.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the thing is that this weekend, a tenth and a half means out of Q1 or inside Q3. I think where we did a really good job is by executing everything perfectly from Q1 to Q3.<\/p>\n

\"Charles <\/p>\n

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Lando Norris, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Andy Hone\/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s been a very difficult weekend since FP1 and we knew that we will struggle to get to Q2 and then Q3. But we did everything perfect. So I’m very happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leclerc credited his strong qualifying on changes to his SF-25 after finishing fifth in the sprint race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe changed, a little bit, the car from this morning and that did a step, that helped us to do a step forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, yeah, altogether start P3. I think we should be really satisfied with that because I don’t think any of us expected that after such a difficult beginning of the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Federico Faturos<\/p>\n

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