Lewis Hamilton says he'll be 'happy' to see the Mercedes W14 Formula 1 car gone at the end of this year after a frustrating Brazilian GP sprint race.
At a circuit that Hamilton has always enjoyed, he qualified fifth in the shootout but fell away to a distant seventh in the sprint itself, losing places to Charles Leclerc and Yuki Tsunoda. In just 24 laps he dropped 34.7 seconds behind winner Max Verstappen, having chased the Dutchman home in the US GP before his disqualification, and also put in a charging drive to second in Mexico.
Photo by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Images Mechanics bring Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W14, to the Sprint grid 'It was a very tough race,' he said. 'I think we got a good start and then... balance. We tried to get the right balance with the wing, just a lot of understeer, snap oversteer, and the rear tyres just dropped off. And in the mid-sector, huge understeer. 'I don't know whether we got the set-up wrong. We probably got the set-up wrong, but it is what it is.
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