Lewis Hamilton ‘unlucky’ in Italian GP pole position near-miss
Lewis Hamilton believes that he was”very unlucky” to not pip Charles Leclerc to Italian GP post – but says he is enjoying the”exciting” duel using Ferrari in Monza.
With the last laps of Q3 ruined by the farcical battle to get a tow around F1’s quickest lap, the battle for rod was finally settled from the very first Q3 runs – that Leclerc gained from Mercedes’ Hamilton with a mere 0.036s and Valtteri Bottas from 0.047s.
But both Bottas and Hamilton reckon pole might have been theirs had they not had to lift if KimI Raikkonen crashed before them at the Parabolica. As it snapped off hamilton was right behind the Alfa Romeo.
“I had been really unlucky,” Hamilton told Sky Sports F1. “I was behind Kimi for my very first lap. I began so that I caught him, the lap close. Clearly with a car you have to generate a gap for your tow.
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“I started catching him throughout the corners and I was thinking’do not grab him too far’ and I got to the final corner and he spun, so I needed to lift. With that lift I’d have lost a tenth and it would have bene the gap between moment and pole.
Nevertheless, the championship leader stated:”But that is exiting. I really like that it is that close and it’s not multiple tenths.”
Leclerc vs Hamilton in comparison
In side-by-side SkyPad analysis of Leclerc and also Hamilton’s laps, Anthony Davidson shows how the Mercedes was fractionally before Ferrari starting the backstraight which heads into the Parabolica – and then was level pegging leaving the final turn despite necessarily having to facilitate off for Raikkonen.
From the movie above, Sky F1’s Davidson says:”Raikkonen spins out in front and Lewis certainly must back out of this ever so marginally.
“On the departure, despite a car spinning in front of him clearly needing to flip out, the excess speed the Mercedes essentially has under it as it goes via a high-profile corner is enough to keep him pretty substantially level pegging with the Ferrari.
“Unfortunately for himonto that [pit] directly, only at the end that is what made the difference”
Meanwhile, Leclerc stated he hadn’t been happy with his own Q3 effort.
“Mercedes were fast, we were very fast also,” that the Ferrari driver said.
“My lap wasn’t special. I was way too near Hulkenberg on the timed lap. The slipstream was clearly excellent, but in the corners I lost a great deal. It was not ideal, I was too close”
Hamilton and Bottas begin between the two Ferraris on Sunday’s grid along with the Englishman said:”I’m really happy we improved the automobile piece by bit during the weekend and was able to get very close to the Ferraris that is amazing.”
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