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Lewis Hamilton says if he “qualified, like I should have qualified, if I didn’t have a problem, I think I had the pace today to definitely be in the top five”.
Lewis Hamilton did not have a good time at in Dutch Grand Prix Qualifying, as after getting eliminated in Q2 and receiving a three-place grid penalty, he had to start the race from P14.
However, in the race Lewis made some great overtakes, and ultimately finished the race in P8.
Afterwards he said he could have finished much higher.
“If I just qualified, like I should have qualified, if I didn’t have a problem, I think I had the pace today to definitely be in the top five,” Lewis said.
“If I started fourth, I would have finished fourth. I was surprised when I drove through and saw the Ferraris in P3.
“We made a big set up change for FP3 but then it was wet so we didn’t get to test it. Today I took out a bunch of wing to balance it and it was fine.”
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Mercedes ultimately opted for a two-stop strategy, which Lewis says was very hard to pull off.
“I had a lot of fun today. I started on the soft tyre. I think it was a very good tyre. I felt much better than my medium tyre. The hard tyre was pretty decent.
“It was really difficult to see what I needed to do, maybe push for it, but I was on a two stop, so trying to use up the tyre, but I also wasn’t sure whether or not we might possibly go for one [stop].
“Probably, if I’d done one stop and managed to manage a little bit better, we could have done a one, maybe finish one spot ahead.
“I look forward to next weekend because I had a s**t weekend this weekend,” Hamilton concluded.
