The seven-time world champion suffered his worst-ever qualifying in thꦆe Uniꦚted States a🤪fter being knocked out in Q3, leaving him down in 13th on the grid for Sund🧔ay’s race. 

Hamilton was heard questioning Mercedes’ timi꧃ng at the end of qualifying, having been one of the last drivers to complete their final runs in the seco♛nd session.

“You left it way too late guys,” Hamilton bemoanౠed over team radio.&ꦛnbsp;

The 38-year-old♒ Brito🔯n explained his frustrations when he spoke to Sky after qualifying. 

“When you’re fast you can sit back and be more relaxed, you can go at the last minute and take your time,” Ham🌟ilton said. “You know you’re lik✱ely to make it easily into Q3.

“We knew it was very hard and there was a 50:50 chance ꦛwe could get into Q3 so I think we need to be better with our timing.&nb💟sp;

“It’s🍒 done, I’ll try and get my head down tomorrow and see what I can✨ do – 13th to God knows where.”

Mercedes struggled throughout qualifying, with both drivers only making it through Q1 with their final laps, before teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell snuck into Q3 and eventually took sixth. 

Hamilton, who was left to rue a mistake at Turn 1 on his final run of Q2, also clipped the wall to avoid168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kevin Magnussen’s Haas during the first part of qualifyin𒉰g. 

“It was a difficult session,” Hamilton said. “We’re not that quick so we really needed perfect laps but it was difficult to get into a rhythm. At the start I h♓ad tha𒁏t issue with the car going slow in the last corner.

“There were a couple of decent moments in there where I thought the car was good 🅷– the Q1 end of the run time was not too bad. 

“We were at the back end of the top 10 of course and the last 🙈run I was at the last of the pack and trying to get the temperatures into the tyres. 

“But I was at the back of the queue and everyone slowed into the last corner, so I lost all temperatꦛures and could𝓰n’t do the lap.”