Lewis Hamilton revealed he nearly suffered the identical crash as his workforce mate did on the reconnaissance lap earlier than yesterday’s dash race in Miami.
Charles Leclerc was unable to start out the race after sliding right into a barrier at flip 10 as heavy rain fell whereas drivers made their approach to the grid earlier than the race. Hamilton, who completed third within the race, revealed the identical factor nearly occurred to him.
“After we all went out for the formation lap, clearly Charles had that second, I had precisely the identical second. I used to be proper behind him and one way or the other it simply stopped going in direction of the wall, proper on the final second.
“In order that was almost each of us out. So to return from that to then get these factors, I’m actually grateful.”
Leclerc, who was later reprimanded for trying to drive his damaged car back to the pits, mentioned he aquaplaned on a patch of water within the left-hand flip. Ferrari despatched each drivers out of the pits on intermediate tyres, which Hamilton mentioned on his radio had been a mistake.
Race management delayed the beginning of the race because of the moist situations. When it started, Hamilton fell again initially on his intermediate tyres, however moved as much as third place on the finish of the race by altering to slick rubber early.
“It wasn’t wanting superb,” he mentioned. “In qualifying, clearly, we had been fairly a bit off [the McLarens] after which getting onto the inters I used to be simply sliding round.
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“I had the Williams behind me, I believe, and there was one other one behind him who, probably, I used to be going to be overtaken by. So I used to be like, I’ve received to roll the cube.
“I used to be on full lock by way of flip 12 and full lock by way of flip 16 and it nonetheless wasn’t turning. So I used to be like, let’s simply go for it.
“If I’m trustworthy, I ought to have achieved it perhaps a lap or two earlier than that. I believe it could have been most likely the identical outcome as a result of these guys had been a bit too far forward. However I’m actually joyful to get again up there and get the factors.”
Qualifying for the grand prix went much less properly for Hamilton as he did not make the lower for Q3 by three hundredths of a second and is because of begin from twelfth place.
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