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“I’m out of it, for sure” – Lewis Hamilton gives up fighting for the 2022 championship after disappointing results in Imola

Samriddhi Jaiswal
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"I'm out of it, for sure" - Lewis Hamilton gives up fighting for the 2022 championship after disappointing results in Imola

Lewis Hamilton says he is out of the 2022 championship after he could only manage to finish P14 in Imola on Sunday.

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton made a good start in the Emilia Romagna GP on Sunday after qualifying P14 in the sprint race. He overtook the cars in front of him soon enough to gain three places. But after the disappointing result of the race, Hamilton says that he is out of the championship.

While he was battling for P10 to gain at least one point for his team, a lot of bad luck crashed onto him and prevented him from doing so.

The Briton was called in for a pit stop and that went bad as there was a slight delay by the crew. A slow pit stop followed by an unsafe incident with Alpine’s Esteban Ocon in the pitlane dropped the Mercedes driver back to P14.

Ocon made an unsafe release while he was exiting from the pitlane and slightly touched Hamilton’s W13. The Frenchman was handed over a five seconds time penalty.

In the aftermath of the incident, the seven-time world champion struggled throughout the race to overtake Pierre Gasly but failed. He finished the race at P13.

Meanwhile his teammate, George Russell had a pretty good race as he finished P4.

Also Read: F1 fans fumes at Esteban Ocon for unsafe release over Lewis Hamilton in the pitlane

Lewis Hamilton wants to forget the Imola weekend

After the disappointing results of the Emilia Romagna GP, Hamilton told Sky Sports, “A weekend to forget, that’s for sure.”

Before the race Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff had stated that the Brackley-based team were not out of the 2022 championship yet. However, Hamilton differed from his team boss based on his personal position so far.

The 37-year-old said, “I’m out of it, for sure. There’s no question about that, but I’ll still keep working as hard as I can to try and somehow pull it back together somehow.”

Also Read: Lewis Hamilton vows to stick with Mercedes as they go through a rough patch

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Samriddhi Jaiswal

Samriddhi Jaiswal

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Samriddhi Jaiswal is an F1 editor and writer at The SportsRush. She started her career as a business journalist but soon found her calling in lights out here we go! Samriddhi has been a Ferrari fan even when her interaction with F1 was occasional. Her first real experience with the thrilling sport came when Charles Leclerc clinched his iconic victory in Spa and Monza and painted the track red. Now, a Tifosi, Samriddhi is a hardcore fan of the prancing horse and can relate to the chaos within the Italian camp and also admires Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher. Off the track, she finds her home in books and musical instruments.

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