After losing pole to team mate Nico Rosberg Lewis Hamilton says he wasn’t entirely comfortable with his car in qualifying in Barcelona.
Hamilton was fastest in both Q1 and Q2, but missed out by a quarter of a second in the session that mattered.
“Generally this weekend I haven’t had the best of weekends up until now,” said Hamilton. “Obviously this is still great for us today, to be one and two on the grid but I’ve just been struggling all weekend generally. Even my long runs have been pretty poor but on one lap pace, the car doesn’t seem to be too bad but I’ve just been a little bit lost generally, not really knowing what things to change and which direction to go, so I kind of didn’t really make many changes into P3 and into qualifying, I just left the car the same.
“I didn’t really make any changes to it, I wasn’t one hundred percent comfortable, but I knew that it was good enough to do what we did today. As for the win, we’ve got improve our race pace but obviously we have very good qualifying pace. I hope in the near future we will get our win, but we’ll work for it tomorrow.”
Hamilton also expressed concerns about starting from the dirty side of the grid: “My side of the grid isn’t really the place to be. These two [Rosberg and Vettel] have a good position on the cleaner side but we’ll do the best job we can from the start but I think more the concern is tyre degradation. Looking after those tyres is going to be an interesting one. I really hope that we can try and get into turn one first, in a 1-2, that’d be really good for the team.”
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