Hamilton and Russell lose badly in Austrian sprint qualifying

Lewis Hamilton got off to a bad start in Saturday’s 2023 F1 Austrian Grand Prix sprint. The British pilot had a disastrous firefight classification (before the sprint race). In complex conditions, the extremely delicate track surface dried every second, and improved significantly throughout Q1 (Shootout 1), so the level of parity was very high and the car with the fastest time on the last lap would enter. will get the right. And in that context, Lewis Hamilton sank.

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The British pilot was eliminated in the first classification and shootout. Forced to start from 18th in the sprint race this Saturday afternoon. Here it is, Hamilton With this type of new Grand Prix format, which repeats for up to six events on the current calendar, it will be very difficult to score points as only the first eight get points in this short race.

“It was really bad timing,” Hamilton complained of the moment the team let him out on the track. Lewis had his lap canceled after going over the track limit at the final high-speed corner where he easily crossed the outer white line that demarcated the course.

George Russell, 15th in trouble

George Russell managed to make it into Q2, but a hydraulic problem in his Mercedes kept him out of the track in the second qualifying session. George didn’t go out on the track in Q2 and didn’t set a time, so he started 15th.