Hamilton struggled to hide his frustration as he reflected on his nightmare qualifying session, with Sky Sports being forced to apologise after he swore during his interview.
“I just struggled, it is what it is,” said the 39-year-old. “This morning, George [Russell] and I had very similar cars but this afternoon, we are trying to experiment still with the car.
“So I went one way, a long way, and he went the other way, just to see if we could find anything. But yeah, it didn’t work. I’ll give it my best shot, 18th is pretty bad.
“When I was making the setup changes I was like ‘it can’t get any worse, surely’… and it did. S**t happens.”
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