Lewis Hamilton is set to start the Las Vegas Grand Prix from the back of the grid after suffering a disastrous qualifying session.<\/p>\n
The Q1 segment was held in extremely wet conditions, with multiple yellow flags being thrown as drivers ran wide and off the track.<\/p>\n
It was a case of drivers being in the right place at the right time to improve their times, but for Hamilton, he could muster no higher than P20.<\/p>\n
Replays show that a bollard got stuck under Hamilton’s car on his last lap, preventing him from going faster.<\/p>\n
It marks the first time in Hamilton’s career that he has qualified on the back of the grid on pure pace.<\/p>\n
Alex Albon also featured in the drop zone after suffering a crash with the barrier late on, however he got the stricken Williams back to the pit lane in 16th place.<\/p>\n
Kimi Antonelli and Yuki Tsunoda for Mercedes and Red Bull were also in the drop zone in 17th and 19th respectively.<\/p>\n
Gabriel Bortoleto also failed to escape from Q1, ending the session in 18th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton is set to start the Las Vegas Grand Prix from the back of the grid after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20321,20324,20322,20325,20323,20320,1461,20319,18451,6121,6180,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-396260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-racing","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115591761329153699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}