There is already a farewell tour of Ferrari's trip by Lewis Hamilton. He is determined to enjoy the trip, even if he is as full of potholes as it was this weekend.
He finished tenth of the 14 survivors of this rainy race, admitted that his confidence shot and interacted on the radio with his new racing engineer Riccardo Adami as if he had never met, but he was not yet dejected.
A day before, after qualifying the eighth, a place behind the teammate Charles Leclerc, he was smiling from ear to ear as if he had chosen the six correct numbers. In a sense, he selected the eight correct numbers: £ 60 million a year, and that helps to calm a lot, as well as using red after a sleep life.
The story of his career began on the same track of Albert Park, next to the network, where he launched his Formula One career 18 years ago. I was 22 years old then. Now he is 40 years old.
That day illuminated by the Sun passed to defending champion Fernando Alonso abroad of the Opening right, an unforgettable movement in his teammate in McLaren. Like then, his father Anthony attended yesterday, his pretty stepmother too.
This time, four places in its groove in the network in March 2007, tested a similar movement. It was a decent start, but he could not find this time that he could not conjure enough space to achieve his goal.
There is already a farewell tour of Ferrari's trip by Lewis Hamilton. He is determined to enjoy the trip, even if he is as full of potholes as this weekend
It ended tenth of the 14 survivors of this rainy career, admitted that his confidence shot and interacted on the radio with his new racing engineer Riccardo Adami as if they had never met
Then he drove well, but without memorant, he always laid himself in eighth, his highlights is his exchanges with Adami. The Italian was urging him to use the K1 button: an overtaking mode
Then he drove well, but without memorant, he always laid himself in eighth, his highlights is his exchanges with Adami. The Italian was convincing his new driver, urging him to use the K1 button, an overtaking mode.
Hamilton, reviewing to deliver the most diplomatic response in its unknown habitat, replied more than once: “Leave me, please.”
A large late shower suddenly allowed it at the head of the race, only fleetingly, when others were brought for intermediate tires. That was on Tour 47 of 58. Ferrari kept him in Slicks too long and suffered for the error, hence his final position.
“We lost a great opportunity there,” Hamilton argued with frustration. He said he had fallen in the field, he said: “S ***”.
With his debut, and a little less delighted than one day before, he reflected: 'It was definitely an intensive course.
'Sometimes it's fine, but he felt as if he were in the deep background today. Only everything is new. Driving the car in wet for the first time, it was behaving very differently from what I have experienced in the past. The power unit, the steering functions that are launching you, are trying to juggle with it.
“Unfortunately, in the end they said it was just a short shower and that the rest of the track was dry, so I thought:” I'm going to hit everything I can and keep it dry. ”
But they didn't say more. And then more came. So I think that little information was missing.
'I had no confidence. I will make some changes in the configuration in China next week.
Lando Norris de McLaren won the Australia Opening Grand Prix of the Formula One season
Norris, the preseason favorite for the title of the pilots, began the formula one season when the last one in Abu Dhabi ended, with the victory of the pole
He was victorious in Albert Park's slippery circuit, where only 14 of the 20 cars ended up in treacherous conditions
Defender Max Verstappen champion was second, while George Russell was third
As for Adami, whom he inherited from his predecessor Carlos Sainz, who himself inherited from Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton was discreet, knowing that his relationship (if he persists) is a work in progress after all his years of Mercedes with Peter 'Bono' Bonnington.
“In general, I am not someone who likes a lot of comments during a race,” he added. 'If I need it, I will ask. But he did the best he can and we will review it.
And I was still halfway.