Lewis Hamilton embarrassed by Logan Sargeant in disappointing Dutch qualifying

Lewis Hamilton crashed out of qualifying in Q2 and will start the Dutch Grand Prix in 13th place after being embarrassed by Sargeant’s success came at the expense of Hamilton, who fell out of the top 10 when the Williams man put his time on the board. Mercedes have struggled all year and their woes don’t look likely to improve any time soon.

Hamilton is concerned that he may struggle to make it into the points during the race. He said: “I did two fast laps at the end and the tyres overheated so I couldn’t improve on the last lap.

“I have got the same car as in qualifying which wasn’t really good. Hopefully when the car is a bit heavier I will be able to progress forward but this is not an easy track to move forwards on. Tomorrow is a new day and I will give it my best.”

Sky Sports F1’s Karun Chandhok was shocked that Hamilton failed to make it into the final qualifying session. He said: “Wow. He just didn’t do the last lap. We’ll have to look back and see what happened, but even the first sector wasn’t there. That’s the big upset of Q2. But both Williams’ are in Q3!”

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Hamilton had a strong practice on Friday, setting the fourth-quickest lap time. And the Brit was very optimistic heading into qualifying.

“It was great,” he said. “I woke up this morning so excited to get in the car. FP1 was actually a really good session for us, the cars been good from the get-go. It’s great work from everyone at the factory. We made some changes over from FP1 to FP2, it wasn’t as good, but it’s good data to have.”

Meanwhile, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has been highly impressed with Hamilton’s attitude while the Silver Arrows attempt to find a fix.

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“He’s been great,” Wolff said. “He’s been super supportive when the team needed it, and that dynamic goes in both directions.

“When he’s not great mentally about how the car is going, we try to support him, and when you can see when the engineers didn’t know what to do next on the track on race weekend, it’s he who cheered everybody up and brought the right attitude as a driver.”

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