Lewis Hamilton says he was a “sitting duck” in his battle with team-mate George Russell at the Miami Grand Prix.
Russell started the race from outside the top 10 but extended his opening stint on the Hard tyre.
By pitting under the Safety Car, Russell was able to gain an advantage and was elevated into the point-paying positions behind Hamilton.
Hamilton, who had swapped his Medium tyres for Hards earlier in the race, opted not to peel into the pit lane during the Safety Car intervention.
The Mercedes duo then battled, with Russell overtaking Hamilton by gaining an advantage off the track, forcing him to return the spot.
However, Russell soon made the position permanent, with the two moving up a position each following a mistake in front for Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas.
“George obviously did a great job in that first stint,” Hamilton said. “He was on the better tyre to start with.
“The Hard was the best tyre so hindsight, maybe we could have started on the hard tyre but again, he did a great job to recover from his position and get the points.
“So we’ve got fifth and sixth today, it’s great points for the team. George did a great job, it was fair, he had fresh tyres, so I was a bit of a sitting duck.”
Hamilton was also heard questioning Mercedes’ decision to offer him a chance to pit under the late Safety Car, requesting that the team determine the best option for him.
Explaining after the race, Hamilton said that inside the car, he has no way of knowing what advantage he would gain from entering the pit lane.
“When you’re out there, you don’t have all the information,” he said. “You don’t know where everyone is and where you don’t have the picture that they have on the screen.
“So when you’re given the responsibility to make a decision, it feels like you’re gambling and I don’t like that.
“So I was like ‘you guys make the decision’. But either way we’re just unfortunate.”
Hamilton’s time has come and gone. Hostile, narcissistic, overpaid, self-entitled, self-absorbed he sucks the life out of that team. Last thing F1 needs is a Mr. T wannabe.
Clearly, no longer a top 5 driver, Hamilton no longer merits #1 driver status, at Mercedes.
Hamilton’s character flaws overflow, unabashedly. The highest paid guy in organized motor sport, he sulks. Plain to see, he’s a hostile, unappreciative, intemperate, impetuous narcissist, looking for the first excuse to play the race card. It’s a sad-sad thing for baby-Lewis, 37 years old, no longer F1’s wittle-baby boy.
Fair ‘n square, George Russell outsmarted Hamilton. Doped up on hip-hop, looking more like Michael Jackson than Ayrton Senna, I’m afraid Hamilton’s a little passed his sell-by date.
Lewis Hamilton: Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Hamilton’s hot-pink hip-hop ensemble the talk of Miami, the fashion world is stunned to realize ’70’s leisure suits, are back in Vogue.
A buffoon, the laughing stock of F1, the only one who doesn’t know it is, Hamilton himself.
What’s with the hair implants? And, the counterculture ensemble? What’s with his attitude?
The moment he said that to the pits, about deciding for him, I called it out as bullshit, trying to shift the blame, because on so many oither occasions he has questioned the instructions from the team when they have told him what strategy moves to make. Last race he started behind Russell, who then disappeared into the distance, passing multiple cars to get himself into the top five, while the only cars Hamilton passed were Sainz and Ricciardo when they were off-track, Alonso when he had damage, and Ocon, who was only demoted behind by a penalty post-race. In the latest race Russell began behind Hamilton by many more places, but persistently moved forward through the field to achieve another top five finish, while Hamilton went back a place from where he started to end up behind his teammate. Hamilton is a poisonous little toad, who can see the writing on the wall, that Russell is kicking his arse, so he’s trying to make it look like the team’s fault. He is a despicable, agitating hypocrite, and the sooner he goes the better for the well-being of Formula One.
Hamilton’s a blame-shifter, and a credit-taker. He’ll throw anyone under the bus, to save himself, which is why he’s an unmarried 37 year old creep, who lacks for character sufficient to merit himself marriage material. He can’t quit F1 because, he’s overpaid.
I also thought it was weird that he wanted the team to decide for him when for years now he has thrown hissy fits whenever they decided for him. I seriously wonder if he is legit bipolar. I can only imagine working with or being in any type of relationship with him is a nightmare. He’s been single for like a decade now, which is pretty unusual for someone with his kind of money and fame. Something just doesn’t seem right with him, and he wasn’t like this earlier in his career. Do the FIA allow drivers to take prescription psychotropics? If so, that would explain a lot.