Lewis Hamilton lashed out at the Ferrari team after clinching fifth place at the Monaco Grand Prix. The seven-time F1 world champion started in P7 but climbed a couple of places to claim 10 points.
Hamilton finished the race around 45 seconds behind those at the front of the pack and was quizzed about the deficit during an his post-race interview with sky Sports.
After being asked if he could explain the deficit, he simply replied: “No.” He was then told it was “kind of crazy to see that” and replied: “Not really, it just happens.” The veteran was then asked for a second time if he knew why the time deficit was so big and again muttered: “No.”
The frosty exchanged continued as Hamilton was asked about the mandated second stop. And the Briton explained: “I can’t comment on the rest of the race, I was kind of in the middle of nowhere.
“With the penalty that I had I obviously started in seventh. I was behind two cars for some time and then I managed to clear them and then I was in no man’s land for a bit.
“I was really not racing anyone, I needed a Safety Car or something to come into play and it didn’t happen. It was pretty straight forward from there.”
Hamilton was then quizzed about instructions he received over the team radio where he was told to “Push now, this is our race.”
And he took aim at his team as he exclaimed: “It wasn’t very clear… the information wasn’t that clear. I didn’t really understand ‘this is our race’. I didn’t know what I was fighting for.
“Am I fighting for the next spot ahead? In actual fact when I look at the data I wasn’t near anybody ahead. I used up my tyres a lot in that moment but I was so far away from them.”
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