Lewis Hamilton crashed into the wall during the final phase of qualifying for the European Grand Prix and admitted that it was all his own doing.
Speaking after qualifying, where his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg qualified on pole, Hamilton was not looking for excuses, “It’s a fine line between being on it and not being on it – and I just wasn’t on it today, I wasn’t hitting the apexes, the right braking zones, none of it was in the right place today.”
“I had a fantastic rhythm yesterday but zero today,” said the reigning F1 world champion. “Sometimes it happens. Obviously, I have to try and get up as high as possible tomorrow. It is damage limitation from here and I will do what I can.”
“The team did make a change to something but I was just not on it. It was a rough session, just one of those sessions that you don’t need. These kind of days come and go, and you have to take the rough with the smooth. The car was generally good, I just was not able to get into a rhythm.”
Hamilton scythed Rosberg’s championship points lead from 43 to 9 in three races, the Briton winning the last two in a row. But he acknowledges that he is back in damage limitation mode for the race in Baku.
“I highly doubt that I can win the race but I will do my best to try and gain as many points as I can,” said Hamilton. “Nico has got a pretty easy run at the front.”
“We have got more pace than most I think, so, as long as he gets a good start, he will be gone into the distance. My job is just to get through the tangle of guys I have in front of me,” added Hamiulton
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