LEWIS HAMILTON POST QUALIFYING IN AUSTRALIA [P7] | 07.03.26
“Yeah, it was not the best qualifying but I felt solid all weekend, been really really happy in the car and feeling super motivated. Up until end of Q1 on the medium tyre was feeling great, I was third or fourth with just the medium tyre. And then we got into Q2 we had some problems with the engine and deployment and then it kind of threw a bunch of spanners in the mix and we really struggled to exceed and get the best lap. So I think, if things hadn’t been an issue, we probably could’ve been fine… third, fourth. Couldn’t be able to catch Mercedes but still lots of work to do to and progress to be made.” Suprised by the gap to Merc? "No. I think… what’s clear is that they didn’t show the engine power through any of the practice [sessions] because you know, there’s the whole talk of the compression ratio and obviously done a really solid job with their engine, which we have as well but would be interesting to… I’m trying to understand why it’s 2 tenths or more just through power per sector. If it is the compression thing, I wanna understand why the FIA haven’t done anything, what’s been done to rectify it but if it’s not and it’s just pure pace, then we have to do a better job.”
