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After Mercedes’ horrific performance at the Monaco Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton says “there’s no point getting all depressed”.
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes have a lot to unpack after an awful performance at the Monaco Grand Prix. Not only did Lewis finish in P7, but Valtteri Bottas had to retire due to the team not being able to remove one of his wheels during a pit stop.
To make things worse, after winning the race Max Verstappen sits at the top of the drivers’ championship standings, while Red Bull surpassed Mercedes on the constructors’ side.
“It’s going to be tough,” the Briton said after the race.
“I told you at the beginning, they’ve got a championship-winning car, and they’re going to be very hard to beat.
“I’ve been serious about it all year. We’ve won races which we shouldn’t have won, like in Bahrain. But it’s not over. There’s a long, long way to go.
“We definitely can’t afford another weekend like this, but I’m grateful I’ve finished, and grateful I finished and got some points, fastest lap.
“Every little point that you can get on a bad weekend like this, hopefully can count towards something at the end.”
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Lewis potentially had the chance to finish at least in P5, but Mercedes’ failed attempt at an undercut allowed both Sergio Perez and Sebastian Vettel to get ahead of him.
Lewis thinks the team needs to make sure a weekend such as this doesn’t happen again.
“Of course it’s not a great weekend, but I don’t feel like I’m dwelling on it. There’s a lot that we could have done better in terms of how we prepared going into the weekend.
“We’ve had some good conversations through the weekend. But it’s not good enough from all of us.
“We win and we lose as a team, and it’s collectively not a good job from all of us, across the board. And we don’t take it lightly.
“But there’s no point getting all depressed. We’ve got to start looking at the data and figuring out why we’re in this position.
“I’m going to be on calls over these next days once we get some analysis. Naturally, we all want answers within the team.
“I know everyone will be working flat out to make sure that hopefully this kind of weekend doesn’t happen again,” concluded the seven-time champion.
