Andrea Kimi Antoneley revealed Lewis Hamilton Formula 1 Payed a upliftment journey after the crook qualifies for the poor. Belgium Grand Prix,
Antoneley was excluded Mercedes Team partner George Russell For the eighth time in a row on Saturday, again failed to get out of Q1 as they finished 18th, slowing 0.355s compared to Britain.
18 -year -old Italian was blind Troubled by his result when he participated in the media pen After his Q1 exit, but he enjoyed unexpected support from seven -time world champion Hamilton.
“He came to call the team hi, and of course we had some words,” said Antoneley. “He was asking me to keep his head up and it is normal to be a bad weekend. And just to believe. It was really good.”
The last crook for the race for a top team on first debut joined McLaren With a lot of success in 2007, at the age of 22, Hamilton re -sympathized with his young colleague when Sky Sports F1 suggested that he could find out what Antoneley is doing in that situation.
Hamilton stressed, “I can’t imagine what it is at the age of 18 – or try to imagine what it is at the age of 18 – what he is doing,” Hamilton said insisting. “He is doing fantastic. But he was thrown at a deep end at the age of 18 … When he started racing for the first time, he did not even have his driving license.
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari, Andrea Kimi Antonally, Mercedes
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“I think it’s a lot on someone’s shoulders. He is doing a great job and has found a large group of people around him. So, I think you just have to take it to your strid, which I think he is.
“And he got Bono (Race Engineer Peter Bonington, who used to work with Hamilton in the past). He has no better.”
Antoneley began a race for the main spa-fankerchamps from Pitlane, as the team tried to solve their confidence issues by giving him a high-deployment rear wing. The goal was to make its W66 more stable; This helped the Mercedes driver feel somewhat more comfortable, although he struggled to make significant progress and finished 16th.
He said, “They had some laps where I was in free air, I definitely enjoyed a lot,” he said, spent most of his race in traffic. “It is quite disappointing to get stuck then, because you can’t really expose the real speed you do. Once I was stuck, I was suddenly slow in two seconds.
“It was difficult, but I think I should not start from that distance. I think I need to work on my ability and work to get back to confidence with the car to start more than the front. Because in the race where I started more than the front, it was a completely different story,” once the podium finisher concluded.
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