Lewis Hamilton assessed the British Grand Prix as a \u201cdifficult race\u201d, with the seven-time World Champion admitting that his Ferrari had been a \u201cvery hard car to drive\u201d in the mixed conditions at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
After showing flashes of strong pace during the weekend, Hamilton<\/a> lined up in P5 on the grid for his home race and suggested that he would not give up hope of a podium<\/a>.<\/p>\n That dream very nearly came true as the 40-year-old found himself in fourth and chasing down third-placed Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> in the latter stages of the Grand Prix, before ultimately missing out on the rostrum by just over five seconds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sharing his reflections after jumping out of the car, Hamilton said: \u201c[It was a] difficult race, not a great one from my side. I did the best I could.<\/p>\n \u201cAs it showed there was plenty of mistakes out there and very, very tricky conditions, in really a very, very hard car to drive here \u2013 this car doesn\u2019t like those conditions. Not ideal, but we got some points at least.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamilton\u2019s pace appeared to drop off slightly as he embarked on a second stint on the intermediate tyres before switching to the soft compound in the final phase.<\/p>\n Asked to summarise that segment of the race, he explained: \u201cThe tyres [were] dropping off, the car doesn\u2019t like low-speed corners, lots of understeer, and I started knocking out the left front and then just couldn\u2019t keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the disappointment of missing out on a top-three result, Hamilton could still take the positives from racing in front of his home crowd.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I take from it is the amazing energy from all the fans,\u201d the Briton said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve been incredible this weekend and it\u2019s been amazing to see so many people switch to red and, yeah, got some points.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton assessed the British Grand Prix as a \u201cdifficult race\u201d, with the seven-time World Champion admitting that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-243985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114809182872592313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}