The seven-time world champion ended up three-tenths adrift of pole-sitter 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris as he could only qualify🀅 fifth for Saturday’s sprint race in Braz🌱il. 

Hamilton, who also qualified fifth for Sunday’s grand prix, was outpaced by Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell who claimed a spot on the sꦛecond row 𝕴in fourth. 

“[This] is generallꦕy the pace our car has been for q🤡uite some time,” Hamilton said. “It’s our normal average scoring position – always pushing for more.

“My last lap wasn’t really that specta🌄cular, I think I probably could’ve been one or two places further forwards but I gave it my best.”

Hamilton added: “Maximis🥃ing the time on each of the tyres is always a challenge; getting the right temperatures etc… I think I did, just had a bit of snap at the last𝔉 corner and lost a tenth and a half.

“The car needs to be easier to 🏅drive, wh♑ich it’s not.”

Russell said he is looking to challenge the🍰 front-runners in the sprint race. 

"We’d like to st🐬and here and say we made🐻 some gains, but the truth is that conditions play a huge role,” he said. 

"Sometimes it comes into your window, sometimes it goes away, and it just worked in Q3. The lap was good, it was clean. P4 – I think that’s where we expected♊ we’d be.

"Excited 🌊for this afternoon. I trust our race pace is going 🐲to be better than our qualy pace. I’m sure Max is going to be quickest. The Ferraris are behind us, which is good news, and then eyes forward on Lando."