Lewis Hamilton’s Bad Luck Continues in 2016 Chinese Grand Prix Qualifying

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Published: April 16, 2016

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Nico Rosberg may have won the opening two races of the 2016 Formula One season, establishing an early 17-point lead in the drivers' standings, but Lewis Hamilton was reluctant to reach for any panic buttons in the immediate aftermath of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

For the second race in succession, he had been condemned to damage-limitation mode at the very first corner after another poor start left him unable to capitalise on pole position and vulnerable to those behind, and a collision with Williams' Valtteri Bottas ultimately forced him to settle for third.

But although his Mercedes team-mate had extended his career-best winning streak to five races, growing in confidence all the while, Hamilton—at the beginning of what, with 21 grands prix, will be the longest campaign in the history of F1—remained remarkably relaxed as he left the Sakhir circuit.



Per Sky Sports' James Galloway, he insisted:

I actually feel really chilled, to be honest. Jeez, it is what it is, it's not a big issue.

There's a long, long way to go. 17 points down? I've had a lot of worse.

Qualifying was great—the last two qualifyings have been good—I think I had the set-up right for the race, but unfortunately I was unable to exploit that. It is what it is. 

Congratulations to Nico—an easy day for him for sure—I live to fight another day.

His insinuation that Rosberg had claimed an "easy" win in Bahrain was a little unfair—after all, can a grand prix victory ever be regarded as that simple?—but Hamilton's assessment of his own race, his own predicament, offered another insight into his growth in maturity in recent times.

Where he would once be horrified by the thought of conceding pole—never mind being assaulted by another car on the opening lap—he now accepts such incidents occasionally happen over the course of an ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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