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Ferrari's first home race weekend did not go at all as planned with both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton failing to reach Q3 at Imola.
It was P12 for Hamilton in the end at Imola. When asked for his feelings after the race, the British driver revealed how he experienced the tough early elimination to GPblog an other media present at the track.
"[I'm] definitely a bit devastated, I felt gutted I guess. Because the car was generally fine, really. I felt the way the car was set up was just right, the brakes were working, everything was kind of in place."
Ferrari are not quick enough
Nevertheless, neither he nor teammate Leclerc could improve on their positions in their second runs. Isack Hadjar, Alex Albon, Carlos Sainz, Pierre Gasly, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll all leapfrogged them in the order, prompting their elimination.
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Hamilton, thus, reached a tough conclusion on Ferrari's current performance level.
"And you just can't go quicker. If you look at how quick Max is going through Turn 2 and 3, you just can't match it. And when we put that new soft on at the end, for some reason it just didn't do that for me, there was no extra grip."
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