AUSTIN — Lewis Hamilton certified down in nineteenth for Sunday’s U.S. Grand Prix, complaining his automobile was “fairly horrible” to drive after Mercedes was pressured into automobile modifications.

Hamilton was sixth within the dash race on Saturday earlier than getting knocked out of the primary qualifying session for Sunday’s race.

The seven-time world champion mentioned his automobile by no means felt proper after a difficulty he encountered at first of the dash.

“It has been fairly horrible,” Hamilton mentioned. “The automobile felt nice yesterday, so clearly got here actually optimistic for right this moment. One thing failed on the entrance suspension actually as we pulled away from the road for the formation lap, and I had that by means of the race.

“So that they figured that out, they modified the nook. And it felt like a large number, clearly, by means of qualifying.”

Hamilton mentioned he’ll channel the spirit of his youthful self to attempt to make one thing occur.

“There’s not going to be quite a bit happening. I began in karts with a fairly dangerous go-kart and used to come back by means of the sphere, so I will see if I can do this tomorrow.”

He added: “Yesterday swiftly we have been trying actually fast. I do not know the place that went. However we’ll maintain pushing.”

After qualifying, Hamilton mentioned he needed to begin from the pit lane so the staff can alter his setup earlier than the race begin.

Mercedes teammate George Russell crashed out of qualifying, ending the session early.