Hamilton admits mistake: "I'm incredibly disappointed in myself"

Both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell crashed in Q3 today in a similar fashion, with the duo losing the rear of their car in turn's 7 and 10. Hamilton is unhappy with the fact he crashed after it looked like a potential front-row finish was on the cards.

"I’m incredibly disappointed in myself ultimately, and I'm so sorry to the team," he told Sky Sports, "everyone worked so hard to put the car together and I never like to bring it back damaged."

The Brit then furthered his frustration by adding that a top-three finish was potentially there to be taken: "We were fighting for the top-three I think and I don’t have an answer for it, I just lost the back end in turn 7 and that was that."

Chance for a strong finish still available

The seven-time World Champion will start from P10 tomorrow in the Sprint but will look to move up the grid and claim a higher starting position in the race on Sunday, which is achievable in the Brit's mind. He finished by saying, "I’m encouraged for sure, of course after that performance, we weren’t expecting to be as close as that today, so that’s a huge positive from the team. I’m quite far back so I don’t know what’s possible from there but we’ve got the Sprint race as well, so tomorrow I hope we can make up some lost time.”