Lewis Hamilton previews Las Vegas Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton has predicted that he won’t win the Las Vegas Grand Prix after whimpering to an eighth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix earlier this month. The seven-time world champion is the joint most successful driver in F1 history alongside Michael Schumacher but hasn’t won a race for two years amid a downturn in fortunes for Mercedes.
Hamilton won six of his titles with Mercedes during a purple patch for the Silver Arrows. But Mercedes’ F1 dominance came to an end in 2022 after teams were forced to redesign their cars following a string of regulation changes.
Mercedes have failed to keep pace with Red Bull since the new rules were introduced, with Hamilton struggling just to secure podium finishes in recent times. And the 38-year-old, who was outshone by a whole host of his rivals in South America last time out, doesn’t believe his team can turn their fortunes around in the United States.
“I 100 per cent know what went wrong there [in Brazil], but still ultimately we didn’t do a good job,” Hamilton told Sky Sports. “But a lot of learnings from it in terms of where we need to go, where we need to develop. Through failure there’s always a lot of things you can learn, mostly that you learn from those experiences.
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“Coming here we hopefully have a better approach. But we still don’t know how the car’s going to be here. It’s still not a world championship-winning car and I don’t even think it’s probably a race-winning car still.”
After the Brazilian Grand Prix, Hamilton explained: “One thing, the car is really unpredictable. In a sense of one weekend it feels good, one session it feels good, and then not. I’m sure we will go and look at things and find things we should have done differently, but with the one [practice] session it’s difficult.
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“But I’m still proud of the team, they still came here and did their work, they hold their head up high and that’s what we have to continue to do. Just keep pushing forward. Two more races with this thing. Hopefully no more driving it.”
However, Mercedes chief Toto Wolff was than less than complimentary about the Stevenage-born ace and his team-mate George Russell, who failed to finish in Brazil, as he hissed: “[It was] an inexcusable performance. There are no words for that. That car finished second last week and the week before and whatever we did to it was horrible. Lewis survived out there but George…”
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