Annoyed Lewis Hamilton’s frustrated reaction to George Russell incident in F1 Belgian Grand Prix sprint shootout
The Mercedes pai🌜r both had their final laps compromised by each other in the sprint shootout a🎐t Spa on Saturday.
Russell locked up, Hamilton needed to avoid his teamma꧅te b🍌efore eventually overtaking.
“N🐻ot happy about it, obviou꧑sly,” was Hamilton’s reaction to being limited to P7.
“It wa🌳s a really fun session, it was looking great at the end.
“I knew I could go quicker. I reckon♏ I could’ve been first or second in that session on the last lap.
“It’s 🔯just… the communication was pretty poor. It was difficult to und꧑erstand.
“We got to✤ the last corner, there were seven cars, or whatever, trundling around.
“We were led to believe that we didn’t have any more 🦂time left which is why we were pushing.
“But it turns out that we had plenty of time.
🧜“Then, obviously, with George, like﷽… it’s the way it is.”
Hamilton was pushed for a reaction to the Russell incident but just said: “I was… well, it doesn’t 🍸matter.”
Sky’s Martin Brundle assessed it: “They were obviously compressed ꦇas they got into the last lap with space between them.
“It’s a series of incidents which all added up, into Mercedes stepping on th༺eir own t🌃ails, unfortunately.
“They were nose to tail, Lewis has more drive, better exit, slipstream, better st💫ream through Radillon, then has to get out of the throttle. Both drivers had their lap compromised.”
Hamilton added about t🌊he sp🍬rint race: “I feel great in the car in all conditions. We are slower than the Red Bulls in the middle sector.
“None of us have driv🐭en on heavier fuel. I’m excited that it’s dry today.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering every🎉thing from American sports, to football, to F1.
