Lewis Hamilton did not have the debut expected after dominating Free Practice 2 at the Bahrain GP. The British driver had already had problems in qualifying and started ninth. The idea is back but the speed of the Mercedes is not enough to climb so many positions. But not only that, lap after lap, reliability also fails.
As the seven-time world champion himself explained, in the middle of the race the W15 seat broke and further narrowed his options.
I braked in the first corner and the seat moved, and the right side fell, I felt something squeak. I moved to the seat. “I was with my ass in the air,” he explained to DAZN
But those weren’t the only problems the seven-time world champion had to deal with: “I ran out of battery for a while, So on the straights I lost speed, I lost a lot compared to the McLarens, I was fixing that for a few laps, and it took me about ten laps, I lost a lot of seconds because of that,” he commented in remarks reported by Motorsport .com.
Finally, Lewis finished seventh thanks to a great strategy in the pits where he overtook Piastri and also overtook Fernando Alonso and his Aston Martin due to pure speed. However, he sees Red Bull in another league: “There are many areas where we can improve. Also “We are further than we thought with respect to the Red Bulls.”
Source: La Verdad

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