Charles Leclerc received a penalty.<\/a><\/p>\nHamilton says the damage to his Ferrari cost him “about half a second of downforce”.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was really unlucky to get caught up with Max’s spin, and obviously lost positions from there,\u201d he said when asked by Crash.net about the first lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then got damage from Franco, and then that lost me a ton of downforce. And I was just in no-man’s land after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost about half a second of downforce on the car, and I was just driving around for nothing really \u2013 well, trying to get as many points as I could with the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton was particularly frustrated because after the sprint he had made changes for main qualifying, and he was much happier with the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we progressed going into qualifying, and the laps to the grid felt really strong,\u201d he said. \u201cI was already feeling like, yeah, we’re going to be strong in this race.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAnd then obviously, with the damage \u2013 and it’s the worst when it happens on lap one as well, because then there’s just nothing you can do. Just a passenger.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly I think without the damage, I think we would have been right up in the fight. The car was feeling good, as I said, on the laps the grid.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s a shame, because it doesn’t really truly reflect the hard work that the team has done. And yeah, a weekend to forget. We move forwards and we try and see if we can extract more at the next race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think, as I said, we just started on the wrong foot this weekend. So the car was very snappy on the way into corners, and massive understeer mid-corner. So that’s not the balance that you want. It was better for qualifying than going into the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
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