Revealed: What Lewis Hamilton ‘San Diego’ codeword meant
The 'San Diego' code☂word used by Lewis Hamilton and his Ferrari race engineer has been explained.
The meaning behind168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s ‘San Diego’ codeword at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix has been revealed.
After Hamilton claimed his first pole position for Ferrari in the China sprint race, fans were🌃 left baffled when new race engineer Riccardo ๊Adami used a codeword to confirm the result.
The seven-time world champion pipped former F1 title rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to pole by just 0.018s as he topped a qualifying session for the first time since making his blockbuster switch from Mercedes to Ferrari൩.
Hamilton a🍃sked: “Where are we?”, to which Adami replied: “that’s San D🐻iego.”
A laughing Hamilton responde☂d: "Really? Yes!", before Adami added: "Good job in San Diego, San Diego!”
The exact meaning behind the phrase left many puzzled and it was not addressed over the remainder of the Chinese Grand🤪 Prix weekend.
However, Sky Sports F1’s pitlane reporter Ted Kravitz has revealed that it was a reference from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) is the anchorman for the fictional KVWN channel 4 local television station based in꧒ San Diego.
“You stay classy, San Diego,” is the signature p꧙hrase used by Burgundy to sign off his news bu🥂lletins.
“The ‘stay classy’ refer💎ence. It was an Anchorman reference,” Kravitz explained on the F1 Show.
“It wasn’💯t to do with the pilgrimage, as Kamal the German Sky Sports monitor man, who thought Santiago was a reference to the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela, and how Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari were on some sort of pilgrimage together.
“It wasn’t that! It turns out it was a Will Ferrell An♐chorman reference.”
Lewis Hamilton’s sprint victory a ‘critical moment’
Hamilton went on to convert the pole into a commanding victory in the Shanghai sprint racꦫe on Saturday m🍷orning.
Ferrari’s weekend went downhill from there, with the team struggling to rep🥀licate their previous competitiveness in regular grand prix qualifying.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc and Hamilton finished fifth and sixth in Sunday’s grand prix but were 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:both disqualified for separate tech𓂃nical infringements following post-race checks.
But Kravitz felt the signi⭕ficance of Hamilton’s b🍬reakthrough Ferrari win was overlooked during the weekend.
“I 💞thought it wasꦆ a critical moment,” Kravitz said.
“You know how I like to overplay things, but I thought it was a🔴 breakthrough, I really did.
“I thought it was a very significan🦄t moment and in a way I don’t like all th🌄is ‘it’s only a sprint race’, and his celebrations were a bit muted as well weren’t they.
“I was like ‘come on!’ I know it’s j꧅ꦡust a sprint race but buy into it! It’s an important moment.”
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