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HAMILTON : PORTIMAO IS AN “INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT”

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2 years ago

23/10/2020

HAMILTON PORTIMAO IS AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT

Hamilton finished second-quickest to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in Friday’s opening session upon Formula 1’s first visit to the Algarve Circuit.

It was not an easy day for the Lewis Hamilton in Portimao, who saw his run plans disrupted by track limit violations and red flags as team-mate Valtteri Bottas stormed to the top of the timesheets in both sessions.

Hamilton revealed the car took a step back between first and second practice and conceded the circuit was difficult to get to grips with.

“It is a difficult circuit,” he said. “Massively challenging, the undulations are incredible and a lot of places you can’t see where you are going.

“The exit of turn eight, you are looking at the sky for a period of time and you have no idea what is beyond the hill.

“Also, into 11, you come in and don’t know where you are and all of a sudden it arrives on you out of nowhere. Really challenging and the surface is very smooth, you see a lot of people sliding and spinning. It has not been an easy day.

“P1 was probably the better session for me, even though the car didn’t feel that great, and then we made some changes into this one and it felt pretty terrible in P2.

“So I need to take a few steps back to figure out where I went wrong in the set-up and see if we can improve for tomorrow.”

HAMILTON : PORTIMAO IS AN “INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT” HAMILTON : PORTIMAO IS AN “INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT”