Lewis Hamilton says his Dutch GP weekend is effective "done" after dropping out of Q2 in 12th.
The seven-time world champion was knocked out in the second session and is set to start 12th after a mistake on his final lap of qualifying. He could also be in trouble with the stewards for potentially impedingAfter qualifying, he told Sky: “It was a pretty shocking session. These things happen, I don’t know what to say. It's done now but it doesn't feel good.
“It all went badly from the moment the situation with Perez happened. I did my best to get out of the way, I was far to the left as possible, but timing was bad.He added to the official F1 TV channel:"It’s definitely very, very frustrating, naturally, but this is what it is.Hamilton revealed changes to his W15 car were made overnight after Friday practice which made it a “nightmare” to drive.“We made changes overnight and we couldn’t see in P3, but it’s the same for everybody.
“The car was massively snappy today. Yesterday was a lot of understeer and then we tried to dial that out and went more the other way.” Asked what went wrong for Hamilton, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff told Sky: “Looking at the previous sessions we were pretty much always among the top three. And then, we just had a car that was on a knife-edge.
“It was very difficult to nurture through the lap. Lots of understeer, snap oversteer and the moment you go over those temperature thresholds, you have no performance anymore.
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