Lewis Hamilton’s Brazil GP frustration boils over: "One other write-off weekend”

Lewis Hamilton was downtrodden following a troublesome qualifying session for the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix. Ending thirteenth, the Ferrari driver joined the final complaints about tyre temperatures throughout the grid, including that mentally he’s “not good”.

Hamilton dropped out in Q2 earlier than McLaren’s Lando Norris took pole forward of Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Scuderia team-mate Charles Leclerc. This was one other shock exit, as he joined Max Verstappen, who additionally suffered a shock early elimination.

“The set-up is ok, simply couldn’t get the tyres working,” the Briton admitted. “Tyre temps,” he repeated when pressed on the place he misplaced time. “It is all achieved within the storage,” he added.

Is that this one other concern with Ferrari’s processes?

“I do not know, I can not bear in mind if it is the identical downside as earlier than, it isn’t the identical, I feel the execution when it comes to the occasions we bought out and every part is ok, it is simply the rears are at a spot that I can not get to temperature for them to cease that.”

The dash was fruitless for the motive force with regard to learnings for Sunday, though he reported that “you’ll be able to’t overtake.”

This was one other disappointing weekend as he watched his team-mate end within the prime three as soon as once more. This unhappiness was mirrored in his face throughout interviews following an extended Saturday, with him being questioned about how he is feeling mentally after one other battle.

“Um… not nice, not nice. I will simply do what I can tomorrow,” he stated. “It simply continues to go unhealthy each weekend, however I will stand up tomorrow and check out once more.”

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari

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Expectations for Sunday are equally low: “I am not anticipating something to be sincere, however we’ll see what occurs, it is one other write-off weekend I suppose.”

Interlagos affords a bruised Hamilton a chance to take one thing from his Sunday marketing campaign. However progress might be restricted with overtaking alternatives at a minimal. Ferrari will pin its hopes on technique, because the climate may show to be a big issue for the weekend. Its goal might be to salvage factors from the midfield whereas Leclerc as soon as once more fights for a podium end.

“I do not need to over exaggerate, I feel, the turnaround that we have had as a result of we’re solely talking a few tenth and a half, possibly,” the Monegasque stated. “However the factor is that this weekend, a tenth and a half means out of Q1 or inside Q3. I feel the place we did a extremely good job is by executing every part completely from Q1 to Q3 as a result of we knew that we had been…

“I imply, it has been a really troublesome weekend since FP1 and we knew that we are going to battle to get to Q2 after which Q3. However we did every part good. So I am very joyful about that.”

Images from Sao Paulo GP – Dash Race

Lando Norris, McLaren