Lewis Hamilton not looking to ‘pull out miracles’ in US GP from fifth
Lewis Hamilton says he is not “looking to pull out miracles” from fifth as h൲e bids to clinch the 2019 Formula 1 world championship in the United States Grand Prix.
Hamilton ꦗis 74 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and will wrap up his sixth drivers’ world title in Austin with a top eight finish during Sunday’s 56-lap race.
Lewis Hamilton says he is not “looking to pull out miracles” from fifth as he bids ඣto clinch the 2019 Formula 1 world championship in the United States Grand Prix.
Hamilton is 74 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and will wrap up his sixth drivers’ world title in Aus൲tin with a top eight finish during Sunday’s 56-lap race.
The Briton will start from a lowly fifth after struggling in qualifying, while Bottܫas pipped Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to pole position around the Circuit of the Americas to score Mercedes’ first pole since July’s German 🃏Grand Prix.
“I don’t look at this race as a particularly imꦚportant race, it’s as important as any other race,” Hamilton insisted.
“So it doesn’t stand out individually ༺as an important 𓆏race. There’s still two more after this.
"Naturally I approach it exactly the same, I’m not looking to pull out miracles.⛄ Things happen for a reason, it is a lesson learned and I’ll try to s꧅ee if I can turn a negative into a positive that’s for sure.
Hamilton conceded after qualifying that has lack of pace had been 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“my fault” and he went on to explain where his Q3 laps fell apart during his media call on Sat👍urday evening.
“The car was fine,” Hamilton said. “The first lap started off really well and t🤡hen I lost time on the exit of Turn 11, then Turn 13, then Turn 14 and it just kept going.
“I was up I think seven or eighth tent🔯hs on my previous lap and then it came down to five and then it went up to six and then it came down to five.
“So I lost a bunch of time throughout the lap. The next one🍒 I clipped the curb into Turn 8 and the lap was done after 𓃲that.”
Mercedes bo❀ss Toto Wolff said it was a relief for his side to get its first pole positi✤on in four months at COTA.
"You can see that the top cars are all very close, so I think we did some really good work from Friday to today,🐠 and Valtteri drove a very good lap,🔯" Wolff said after qualifying.
"But then it’s not perfect because we have a car on pole𓆏 and a car in fifth and we need to figure out how to overcome that."
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