Lewis Hamilton was eliminated in Q1 despite coming home in P2 during the Sprint Race a few hours before. The Britton expects to have some fun on Sunday, though.
The seven-time world champion couldn’t put in a perfect lap in his last run in Q1. He admitted that it wasn’t his best performance, and a difficult W15 to drive didn’t help.
“I don’t blame anything on the team,” he said. “I think, not my best qualifying laps.
“Shit happens, you know,” he said. “Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. This car is on a knife edge, as we know, so it can easily do what we’ve had. But I’ll have some fun from there.”
Hamilton also added that after the Sprint, he decided to change quite a few things with his set-up. However, that didn’t pay off, and he found himself struggling even more.
“We made massive changes going into qualifying,” he said. “We just wanted to experiment. So George [Russell] decided to go one way, much different to what we had because we worked pretty much with the same before.
“Then I went this other direction just to see if we can find something. It didn’t feel terrible. I just couldn’t stop the car in Turn 14.”