In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton is pleased by the performance of his Mercedes team this weekend
In brief
“Amazing” to be “breathing down the leader’s neck” – Hamilton
After he and Mercedes team mate George Russell secured third and fourth on the grid in qualifying yesterday, Lewis Hamilton says he’s enjoying being in the fight for pole once again.
“It’s great,” Hamilton told the official F1 channel. “For us to get a third and fourth, it’s amazing for us to be finally really, really in the mix and breathing down the leader’s neck.
“While the gap was three tenths, I think the lap wasn’t perfect at the end. The car’s quite tricky. I think there was a good couple of tenths in it.
“But that’s really positive, that we have climbed up. We’ve got a little bit of work to do to completely, finally, close that gap, but hopefully tomorrow in the race, we’ll be better off.”
Sargeant penalised for impeding Stroll
Williams driver Logan Sargeant was hit with a three-place grid penalty for today’s Spanish Grand Prix for impeding Lance Stroll in Q1.
Sargeant got in the Aston Martin driver’s way into turn ten on his first push lap in qualifying. The stewards noted that Williams failed to inform him of Stroll approaching but handed him a grid drop as a result.
The penalty makes no difference to Sargeant’s starting position, as he had already qualified last.
Campos fined for unsent email
Campos F3 driver Mari Boya escaped without a sporting penalty that could have cost him his victory in yesterday’s sprint race.
Boya won Saturday’s first race of the weekend but his car failed a technical inspection after the race after scrutineers noted that his car’s plank had not been correctly nominated for his car. Campos were summoned to the stewards and the team’s manager explained that he had attempted to send the FIA an email to inform them of their plank use but that the email had failed to send correctly having gotten stuck in his outbox.
The stewards accepted this explanation and only issued a €2,500 (£2,113) to the team after determining that “no present or future performance advantage had been gained.”
Meguetounif hit with grid drop
Trident driver Sami Meguetounif apologised to his team mate Santiago Ramos after the pair collided while battling for the lead in Saturday’s F3 sprint race.
Meguetounif challenged leader Ramos into turn one at the start of lap three but the two collided, putting Meguetounif out…
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