Formula 1 continues this weekend with the Grand Prix from Emilia Romagna, in Italy, and Lewis Hamilton made a new extremely important announcement that took a lot of people by surprise, one that raises many question marks. After weeks in which Lewis Hamilton faced many problems generated by the Mercedes Formula 1 car, the British pilot does not expect this weekend to be any different.
Formula 1 started very badly for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes, and the British driver says that every weekend is one of "rescue", one in which he tries to recover what he lost, but also to solve the major problems that his car has. Lewis Hamilton criticized the Mercedes cars after both he and his colleague George Russell were eliminated in the second qualifying round at Imola, and in Formula 1, this is a very hard blow.
Formula 1 will start tomorrow's race with Max Verstappen in pole position for the 75th time for the Red Bull Racing team, while Lewis Hamilton will occupy the 13th position and George Russell the 11th position at the start . Lewis Hamilton's performances in this season of Formula 1 are, surprisingly, even inferior to those obtained by his colleague from Mercedes, a sign that he gets along much better with the Germans' car.
"It was not a great session. Yes, of course it is disappointing. We come here with optimism and you know everyone is working hard at the factory and things just don't add up. It's disappointing. I think we performed poorly as a team today. There are things we should have done that we didn't and yes, anyway, we will work as hard as we can to advance in the Sprint…
It will be a tough race but hopefully tomorrow will be better weather wise and who knows? Maybe we can move forward. This is all internal stuff. I don't want to share it, but we will continue to work. It is what it is."
Formula 1 is a competition of pride, heated disputes in the teams, and Lewis Hamilton was surprised by the journalists present at the qualifications having a heated discussion with Toto Wolff, the head of the Mercedes mechanics team. Lewis Hamilton is deeply dissatisfied with the car that Mercedes made available to him for these Formula 1 races, and even in a season that he wanted to win in front of Max Verstappen.
Formula 1 has started in 2022 with only a few races so far, but as Lewis Hamilton fails to win the events in front of him, the title gets further and further away from him, and the frustrations will start to put even more pressure on the team.
