Ferrari<\/a> teammate Charles Leclerc, who is 87 points off the lead, Hamilton was asked if it was time Ferrari gave him priority as their best chance for the title.<\/p>\n\u201cYeah, there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel, but it\u2019s getting dimmer the further we get through,\u201d he said. \u201cThe team is doing an amazing job in bringing upgrades and pushing us forward, I always want to make sure that I acknowledge them and recognise them for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want them to continue to push and I want them to stay hungry and keep that passion on fire. But also at the track we need to come correct and act. We need to make sure we get the results we need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton had very nearly been eliminated during Q2 in qualifying, struggling for pace and questioning Ferrari\u2019s decision-making in trying to give both drivers a chance of a tow at a high-speed circuit where it is vital for a quick lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really fully understand why we were lacking so much pace in Q2, because we should have had pace like we did in the first one, but everyone just advanced forward, so I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s tyre pressure. I\u2019m not quite sure, I need to look into that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think at the end, the team was solely focused on trying to get an equal tow for each driver and we just stumbled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were supposed to do a push, cool, cool, push [sequence of laps]. But because everyone was waiting and Charles didn\u2019t want to go out first, we had to wait, wait, wait, and then we only got one push. It made it pretty challenging for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quick GuideItalian F1 GP qualifying resultsShow<\/p>\n
1 Pierre Gasly \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Alpine\u00a0 1:21.876
2 George Russell \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 Mercedes 1:21.846
\u20203 Oscar Piastri \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa McLaren 1:21.966
4 Charles Leclerc \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde8 Ferrari 1:22.004
5 Lewis Hamilton \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 Ferrari 1:22.011
6 Max Verstappen \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 Red Bull 1:22.070
*7 Kimi Antonelli \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Mercedes 1:22.093
8 Franco Colapinto \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Alpine 1:22.220
9 Lando Norris \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 McLaren 1:22.256
10 Arvid Lindblad \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 Racing Bulls 1:22.286<\/p>\n
Q2 eliminations
11 Gabriel Bortoleto \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Audi 1:22.517
12 Oliver Bearman \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 Haas 1:22.756
13 Nico H\u00fclkenberg \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Audi 1:22.779
*14 Liam Lawson \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Red Bull 1:22.821
15 Carlos Sainz \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Williams 1:23.453
16 Esteban Ocon \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Haas 1:23.454<\/p>\n
Q1 eliminations
17 Yuki Tsunoda \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 Racing Bulls 1:23.755
*18 Alexander Albon \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udded Williams 1:24.356
19 Valtteri Bottas \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee Cadillac 1:24.364
20 Sergio P\u00e9rez \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd Cadillac 1:24.595
21 Fernando Alonso \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Aston Martin 1:25.150
22 Lance Stroll \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Aston Martin 1:25.22<\/p>\n
\u2020 Piastri given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Lawson. *Antonelli, Lawson and Albon all relegated to the back of the grid for taking new power unit elements<\/p>\n
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Alpine\u2019s Pierre Gasly took a remarkable pole position<\/a> for the race, with Mercedes\u2019 George Russell, who is equal with Hamilton on points \u2013 59 behind Antonelli \u2013 in second place. With the Mercedes looking formidable in race pace and Antonelli starting from 20th after an engine-change grid penalty, Russell is in a strong position to make points back, and Hamilton emphasised this was a potentially crucial moment for Ferrari.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re at a point in the year where 59 points is a huge deficit to recover from, especially when Mercedes continue to be the leaders in speed,\u201d he said. \u201cSo yeah, we do have to work as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leclerc and Hamilton will start from third and fourth respectively on Sunday after McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri was given a three-place grid penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has suggested it is time his Ferrari team put their full weight behind his efforts to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-881250","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\/881250","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=881250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}