Mercedes believe an interruption to qualifying ultimately curtailed168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s hopes of winning the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton looked a strong bet for pole position after topping the first two practice sessions in Sin City but a mistake-ridden Q3 left him only 10th on𒉰 the grid.

From there, Hamilton pulled off 🦂a storming comeback drive to take secondꦗ place behind Mercedes teammate , before claiming afterwards he would have “breezed” to victory without his errors in qualifying.

Speaking to media including on Friday in Qatar, Mercedes tr🙈ackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin suggested that a delay to the start of Q3 following Franco Colapinto’s crash disrupted Hamilton’s rhythm.

“He was very happy in Q2 an🅰d very comfortable with the car,” Shovlin explained.

"I think💯 the interruption to the program wouldn't have suited him. I think without that there's he would have certainly been on the front row and he looked like he had a good chance of ♋being on pole.

“But the track reset, you then got this long break while they recover the car and I think he just got out of out of that rhythm a bit. Unfortunately, he didn't get t🎀wo clean laps and that's what put him in P10.”

Shovlin admitted Mercedes ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚstill do not have a clear understanding of why they were so competitive in Las Vegas.

“The h𝐆onest answer is we don't understan﷽d every bit of why we were fast there,” he said.

“For sure the cold conditions suit us and we often see that in the hottest conditions we slip back a bit but it's always difficult because♎ there's inevitably an element of we move forward and others move back.

“It's hard enough to diagnose problems with your own car let alone to try and work out what others were struggling with. But it was nice that the car was working well but then if you look at t🎃he final stints of the race, Ferrari, McLaren, they were actually pretty quick.

“So, I think our early pace was very impressive, our single lap was impressive but perhaps the pictu🍌re if you took the end of the race, they were certainly closer but none of our simulations had Lewis [Hamilton] able to make it from P10 to P2 so that was that was𒅌 clearly a very very strong performance.”

Asked what that says about Ham𒀰ilton, Shovlin replied: “That he was pretty determined to get a good result and he tried very hard to chase down Geoꩵrge.

“But clea🌳rly George having a clear run at it from the frontꦕ meant he was able to build a comfortable gap.

“But it was fantasti🌳c to see Lewis in such good form and hopefully we’ll get some more brilliant results with him before the🥀 end of the year.”