Hamilton was forced into an early pit stop after struggling with tyre degradation in🧔 the🌳 first portion of the race.

Shortly after making his pit stop, the Safety Car was deployed because of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries’ crash at Turn 6.

This meant a number of Hamilton’s rivals could pit under the Safety Car, reduc🙈ing the amount of time they would lose because drivers who had already stopped are forced to drive to a time delta.

It meant Hamilton was 10th, rather than fifth, losing out to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg - the 🍨latterও duo hadn’t stopped under the Safety Car.

Hamilton showed great aggression to overtake Ocon and Hulkenberg immediately, before flyin𓆏g past Russell ﷽into Turn 1.

The seven-time world champion ultimately finished sixth having been unable to overtake 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz in the closing laps.

“It started off pretty decent, then I had quite a bit of deg on my 𓂃m🅰edium tyre, then I had to pit, then the Safety Car really kicked me in the teeth,” Hamilton said. “I lost five places and that was difficult to swallow for a second.

“I knew there was nothing I could do about it, so all I could do 𝄹was just focus on what I could control. I got my head down, was just racing hard from the restart, and had a great battle with a bunch of cars, which was really positive for me to feel in the car.

“I wasꦚ chasing the Ferrari [Sainz] down at the end, just not quite enou🃏gh to get by him. If I hadn’t had that Safety Car stuff maybe we’d have had a better battle until the end.”

It was a ⛦missed opportunity for Russell, who lost several places following the Safety Car restart.

He finished eighth with theꦓ fastest lap to💛 his name.

“I think it was all right,” Russell added. “But following and overtaking seemed pretty challenging [here] this year for everybody, and I think after those first few laps a💜nd the restart, the Safety Car restart, it was all behind and line astern from where we were.

“[I’m] a little bit disappointed because I 🔴had a really good start, made a few positions, [made a] really good move around the Safety Car, and then I went deep into Turn 1, almost crashed into Fernando [Alonso], and lost a position to Lance, [so it was a] scrappy lap.

“Then I losᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt a position to Lewis and ultimately ended up P8, when potentially P5 was on the cards. So, that’s the way the game works. We need to be quicker and try and come back stronger in Miami.”