Lewis Hamilton ‘seething’ and needs just five words to describe Las Vegas GP error

Lewis Hamilton looked furious after a handful of mistakes cost him in Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying, saying “it is what it is” after being asked what went wrong before finishing in 10th place

Lewis Hamilton could not hide his frustration after two costly errors in Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying which mean he will start Sunday’s race in 10th place.

The Brit had a nightmare Q3 as a mistake on turn 12 saw him go off track, forcing him to abandon the lap and later suffered a snap on his second attempt.

There was much better success for Hamilton’s Mercedes team-mate George Russell, who finished in pole position for the race in Sin City – seeing off Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz by just 0.098 seconds.

Sky Sports Formula 1 pundit Martin Brundle summed up the situation perfectly as he claimed the Mercedes driver would be furious about his mistakes that resigned him to 10th.

I knew Lewis would be furious with himself,” he said after the qualification session. This one must have gone wide because it was deleted. His team-mate is on pole and Lewis will start 10th.”

Hamilton cut a dejected figure after his disappointing result and said “It is what it is”, adding: So hopefully it will go up, It is one of those things where it’s been a good weekend so far so I’ll give it my best shot tomorrow

Congrats to George. It’s been good for weather, it is cool today, yest it has been really pleasant all days of the weekend. Well, I think I’m quite far back so I’ll just have to struggle from there with the hope of making a decent finish. It’s going to be degradation come to fore, they had an interesting time here last year.

Russell was extremely happy compared to Bottas after taking pole position and said he did not expect to be this fast on the track.

”I was very comfortable and knew that if I turned in a clear lap I would be starting on the front line,” he said. “The opportunity to take pole is awesome but at the same time we have had a few good qualifyings and still should make it.”

The team chief had to explain the next why the side has been so active literally this weekend as it what proved to be an unexpected approach: “We have to look for some penetration in terms of what it is that has allowed us to be this active this weekend because it was not expected.”

Max Verstappen and Lando Norris will be the big attraction of the Las Vegas Grand Prix – with the Dutchman set to deny his fellow Red Bull Racing driver a chance to win the world championship on Sunday.