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Lewis Hamilton struck the criticisms of “Yapping” after winning his first victory for Ferrari in the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.
The seven times champion followed his victory in only his second event for his new team with fifth place on the grid for the main event on Sunday, but said that he was “optimistic” of a good result.
Hamilton did not identify the people to whom he was referring, but said they “lacked understanding” of the difficulty of succeeding immediately with a new team.
The 40 -year -old said: “People love to be negative on any occasion. Even with the smallest things, they will be just negative about it.
“It’s just the difficult period in which we live.
“I see some people – and once again, I don’t read the news, but I see songs here and there – to see people that I have admired for years to speak.
“Obviously, some of them really only make assumptions without instruction of what is happening, just a real lack of appreciation.
“The quantity of criticism and people I heard by yapping along the way do not clearly understand. Perhaps because they have never had the experience or simply ignorant.”
Hamilton had a difficult first race for Ferrari in Australia last weekend, qualifying himself eighth and finishing 10th.
But he took Pole for the Sprint event in Shanghai on Friday and followed him with a dominant victory in the sprint, leading Oscar Piastri de McLaren and Max Verstappen by Red Bull.
“I felt unusually calm in me,” said Hamilton. “I would really say more than usual. I am generally a relatively calm person, but I think that today there was a silence in me that I have not felt for a long time
“I entered the car very early because I just wanted to be present and enjoy it because I haven’t been there for a while. Good start. Difficult breed.
“It is difficult to put in words what it does. Obviously, it is a sprint race. It is not the main race. But even just for it to be just a good springboard towards where I work.”
Ferrari made some changes to their car after the sprint, and other teams have maximized their own result to leave Hamilton and his teammate Charles Leclerc together in third place.
Piastri took the post of George Russell from Mercedes and Lando Norris, who won in Australia for McLaren.
Verstappen is fourth on the Grand Prix grid, ahead of Hamilton and Leclerc.
Hamilton said: “We have made changes to improve the performance of the race., It was certainly more difficult on a single round.
“The car became quite catchy. The tour was not as clean at the end. I should probably have been 0.2 seconds higher or perhaps 0.1 seconds. We are not too far but not ideal.
“I feel optimistic for tomorrow, I would like to take a good start and jump at least a car. And then get slowly. Tonight, I will make a master plan and I have to try to execute it.”
Leclerc said: “As a team, we have maximized the potential of the car, but the most important thing is that we understand where the potential of the car went.”
A first for Piastri after “sending”
The Piastri post was his first for a Sunday Grand Prix, after qualifying before for two Sprint events.
Start at the front gives Piastri the advantage in a race which should be dominated by the management of tires after all the drivers had trouble keeping their rubber in shape in the sprint.
Norris admitted that he had made too many mistakes in his quest for a post.
“We never doubted that it was the fastest car,” said Norris. “It can sometimes be a little fiery.
“It is always difficult to drive. We can easily do good sectors from time to time, but assemble a tour. It seems simply difficult to understand how to do it regularly.
“Oscar did a good job and I didn’t do a perfect job. It’s tight, so I just paid the price so as not to do well enough.”
Piastri put two laps quickly enough to put it on the post and underlined the difficulties of the McLaren car when he said that he had also almost abandoned his last lap, as Norris had ended up doing it.
The Australian said: “My first round was honestly better than my second round, but just a hairpin at the end of the rights, I lost a little time and I did not do the best hairpin.
“And then the second round, I was about 0.2 seconds on myself, so I just went:” Why not send them to the hairpin? “And I resumed these two tenths, then I found a little more in the last turn.
“So yes, honestly, without that, I was tried to box [pit] Before that. So I’m pretty happy now that I didn’t do it, but it was – I just made a good corner, that’s all. “”
Russell, who was only 0.082 seconds of the pole after having made a significant improvement in his last round, said that it was “a real surprise” to divide the McLarens and to find himself in the front row.
But he said it was “a little a section” to think that he could beat the McLarens in the Grand Prix.
“We know how fast they are. So nothing more than a P3 is a big result for any team at the moment.
“I think they are always one step ahead of everyone. Ferrari has been a real surprise in the sprint, but tomorrow is a different game. And we have the hard tire – no one has yet run. I therefore expect a slightly different result.”
