{"id":8994,"date":"2024-04-20T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T20:00:20","slug":"hamilton-second-in-sprint-but-qualifies-18th-for-chinese-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8994","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton second in sprint but qualifies 18th for Chinese GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hamilton-second-in-sprint-but-qualifies-18th-for-chinese-gp.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton failed to make it out of the first part of qualifying for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix, despite having finished second in Saturday\u2019s sprint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1275884567\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1117464777\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-7878162360987-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 39-year-old Mercedes driver had told reporters after his second place finish behind Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen in the\u00a0sprint race\u00a0that he had missed the feeling of\u00a0lining up on the front row\u00a0and forgotten what it felt like to lead a race.<br \/>\nHamilton did not think he would be challenging for the front row on Sunday but 18th place was far worse than expected.<br \/>\n\u201cSorry guys,\u201d the British driver said to his team over the radio as he made his way back into the pits.<br \/>\n\u201cI made massive changes into qualifying,\u201d Hamilton later told Sky Sports, following his elimination as one of the four slowest drivers.<br \/>\n\u201c(The car) wasn\u2019t too bad in some places. I couldn\u2019t stop in Turn 14,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d<br \/>\nHis team mate George Russell qualified eighth on the grid for Sunday, with Verstappen taking Red Bull\u2019s 100th pole in F1.<br \/>\n\u201c(The car) was very challenging out there, almost lost it in Q1 on my fast lap. It\u2019s not easy to drive, for sure,\u201d Russell said.<br \/>\nHamilton had said he had found out a lot about the car from the sprint and would make adjustments to the setup ahead of qualifying.<br \/>\n\u201cThis morning George and I had very similar cars but then this afternoon, we\u2019re trying to experiment still with the car so I went one way, a long way, and then he went the other way just to see if we could find anything,\u201d Hamilton said.<br \/>\nRussell said 18th on the grid was not where \u201cthe best driver of all time\u201d deserved to be, but that Mercedes needed to try things for the team to find the performance gains required to take the fight to Red Bull and Ferrari.<br \/>\n\u201cOf course, when you make these big setup adjustments, straight into qualifying, it does take some time to adapt to it, Russell said. \u201cWe just need to keep working, keep trying things.\u201c<br \/>\nHamilton\u2019s former Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg, the 2016 world champion, said 18th place was \u201cseriously painful\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cHe had a great lap until then,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was really unnecessary to push the limit and as a seven-time world champion that is a mistake which should be avoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton failed to make it out of the first part of qualifying for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix, finishing in 18th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[461,1107,1664,3,6629,988,1374,250,3330,6156,387,3165,3331,3138,7257,421,18],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-british","tag-car","tag-cars","tag-cyprus","tag-driver","tag-fight","tag-formula-one","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-lost","tag-max-verstappen","tag-news","tag-performance","tag-qualifying","tag-sports","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hamilton second in sprint but qualifies 18th for Chinese GP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"qualifying failure. 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