Lewis Hamilton was left gushing over the pace that Ferrari demonstrated during qualifying for the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver could only manage a P11 finish and was struggling to find reasons to be optimistic ahead of the race.
Hamilton was eliminated in the second part of qualifying on Saturday, along with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez. After completing his final run he confessed that he “couldn’t go faster” in the W14.
There was more to celebrate on the other side of the Mercedes garage as George Russell finished P4, although with Carlos Sainz earning a ten-place grid penalty, he has been promoted to P3 on the grid.
Discussing a difficult qualifying with Sky Sports F1, he said: “Yeah [the car was] just not that great. Yesterday [it] was feeling a little bit better and we were looking relatively competitive.
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