Lewis Hamilton was left to rue a \u201ctough\u201d weekend at the Miami Grand Prix after ending Sunday\u2019s race in P6, with the seven-time World Champion admitting that the team \u201chave to move on\u201d from this point.<\/p>\n
Lining up in sixth place on the grid, Hamilton<\/a> had to take avoiding action when Red Bull<\/a>\u2019s Max Verstappen<\/a> spun on the opening lap. The Ferrari<\/a> driver then fell into a battle with the Alpine<\/a> of Franco Colapinto<\/a>, the pair making contact which left Hamilton with some damage.<\/p>\n From there the Briton struggled to make ground during the remainder of the race, crossing the line in seventh \u2013 the same position that he finished Saturday\u2019s Sprint in. However, he was later promoted to sixth following a post-race time penalty<\/a> for team mate Charles Leclerc<\/a> which dropped the Monegasque down from sixth to eighth.<\/p>\n Reflecting on the event afterwards, Hamilton said: \u201cTough, a tough weekend, and it was a long race in no man\u2019s land.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he had felt beforehand that the performance would be stronger than it proved to be \u2013 with Ferrari amongst those to bring an upgrade package to Miami \u2013 he added: \u201cI think if the car was in one piece, I felt the car was pretty good on the laps to the grid.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like we would have been more competitive, so I really felt optimistic for today. I got held up at the beginning when Max spun and I was in the wrong position for that, and then obviously the damage that I got after that then I was just\u2026 I had nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking further to Sky Sports F1, Hamilton shared his disappointment that the Scuderia\u2019s hard work had not paid off in the final result.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously not a good weekend at all,\u201d he conceded. \u201cSeventh and a seventh. Just in no man\u2019s land on both races, but particularly today with the damage there was nothing I could do.<\/p>\n \u201cReally unfortunate because the team worked so hard, so to come away with a few points is\u2026 We have to move on from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton was left to rue a \u201ctough\u201d weekend at the Miami Grand Prix after ending Sunday\u2019s race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-647422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}