Disappointing qualifying for the Ferrari driver
Lewis Hamilton also in FP3 he confirmed that he was particularly ‘on the ball’ this weekend in Australia, but in Qualifying there were problems that put the Ferrari drivers in difficulty.
There drums recorded some inconveniences and especially in Q2 the SF-26s lost a lot of ground in T2, managing to resolve the problem at the end of Q2 with Leclerc who at that moment was able to set the second fastest time, four tenths behind George Russell.
In Q3 the reds did not go beyond the fourth fastest time with Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton placed in seventh position less than two tenths behind Isack Hadjar who ‘won’ the comparison between the other big names not at the wheel of a Mercedes.
Hamilton did not hide his disappointment at the end of Qualifying even thinking about a race in which overtaking will not be easy at all: “In Q1 I looked very strong, I was in a great position, but then in Q2 I lost power – Hamilton said to the microphones of Sky Sports – we lost the rhythm and were no longer able to find ourselves at ease. There is definitely a lot more potential in the car, we definitely could have finished third or fourth. Today the most difficult thing for us was managing the battery energy, we had some problems. The race is a total unknown, the overtaking will be worse than usual and I really don’t know what to expect. Will I recover positions at the start? I hope so, we’ll see.”
