Lewis Hamilton will start the Indian GP from third on the grid, but the Brit was in a low-key mood after a qualifying session that clearly left him disappointed.
“It’s been a tough weekend for us,” said Hamilton. “Congratulations to Sebastian, it’s obvious that that’s some serious pace that they have, especially with Webber on the primes just behind us. But we’ve been pushing, as Nico said, as hard as we can. We really want to get a great result this weekend.
“Strategy is going to play a huge part but I was a little bit surprised to be where we are but generally, bit by bit, adjusting the set-up and everything, we got a reasonable balance and hopefully tomorrow we can push together to try and stay ahead of the rest.”
Hamilton played down the fact that he lost out to Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg.
“It doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. Nico did a great job, he’s been strong all weekend and on my side, I’ve struggled a little bit through this weekend. I struggled a little bit with something different on the car this weekend which Nico had had experience of seeing maybe in the past.
“I came to grips with it really quite quickly at the end and I’m really happy with the result and the lap time that I was able to get. There’s always a little bit of time everywhere but we’ll try and push these guys as hard as we can in the race obviously. They’re in another world but we’ll try to stay ahead of the rest.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Got to feel a bit sorry for Lewis these days. What should have been, what could have been, everything points to the fact that the motor racing world now sees him as a bit of a ‘has been’.
IndyCar or NASCAR beckons. But will it be in 2014 or 2015?
you can only wish kp……but Dietrich Mateschitz the chairman of Red Bull has said, ” if Vettel was was ever to leave us, we would wish him well, and then nothing would stop Alonso or HAMLTON driving for us.” It looks as if in your little world kp, Hamilton is regarded as a has been.
Al, even a ‘has been’ can still be a very useful number 2 for any of the leading teams. I suspect this is what Mr Mateschitz had in mind.
kp,I hardly think that Mr. Mateschitz would ever consider a has been or number 2 driver, to replace a number 1 drver like Vettel.