Lewis Hamilton crashes out of US Grand Prix as miserable Austin F1 weekend gets worse

Lewis Hamilton had a qualifying nightmare and started the United States Grand Prix 17th connected the grid, and finished it successful a gravel trap aft conscionable 2 laps of the race

Lewis Hamilton capped disconnected a miserable United States Grand Prix play by beaching his Mercedes successful the gravel conscionable 2 laps into the race.

The seven-time Formula 1 champion has endured a precise hard play successful Austin. Usually truthful bully astatine the Circuit of the Americas, since a promising signifier league connected Friday precise small has gone close for Hamilton.

He qualified seventh for the Sprint, having made a mistake which helium claimed denied him a changeable astatine pole. And past helium failed to marque immoderate existent advancement up the bid earlier an adjacent worse qualifying for the main race, 19th fastest and a archetypal ever Q1 exit connected American soil.

Hamilton was hoping to marque swift advancement connected Sunday to marque up for it and got a lighting commencement disconnected the line. He was up successful 12th by the 2nd lap, but that was erstwhile catastrophe struck arsenic helium mislaid the rear extremity of his car.

The Mercedes span disconnected way and into the gravel, coming to a halt earlier helium deed a barrier. It meant determination was small harm and helium could person continued, had helium not go beached - the spinning wheels of the Mercedes a motion of Hamilton's hopeless attempts to get backmost into the race.

Speaking implicit the radio, it was wide that the 39-year-old knew helium was liable for the incident. "Sorry guys," helium said to his colleagues backmost successful the Mercedes store arsenic his miserable play came to an abrupt and aboriginal end.

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