Lewis Hamilton ‘partly to blame’ for Monaco mess

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Hamilton ‘partly to blame’ for Monaco mess

Mercedes undertook "big deep dive" into Monaco failings

Will Gray

Thursday 3 June 2021 18:24

Lewis Hamilton has now accepted he was partly to blame for Mercedes' disastrous performance in the Monaco Grand Prix and that his “heat-of-the-moment” comments were “not the best”.

The reigning seven-time champion lost the lead of the F1 title race to Red Bull rival Max Verstappen after finishing only seventh in Monaco.

Mercedes then executed what Hamilton has described as a “huge deep dive” after the race, with some “difficult discussions” as he and his engineers tried to get to grips with the drop off in performance.

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Hamilton said: “There was no one single person to blame. I was very much a part of the decision-making process and after going back and analysing things there are things I would have said that perhaps would have set a domino effect.

“But we know we could have done better and one race doesn’t define us. Of course, you always try to do better. We win and we lose as a team and we will push forwards and hope for better.

“I think naturally in the heat of the moment you don’t always say the best things. I think constructive criticism is always a good thing, but behind closed doors, and that’s what we’ve been doing.

“The debriefs were great. There’s never any finger-pointing, we just work together, we have difficult discussions, we don’t feel out of place to question people's opinions.

“We spark a lot of debate and do huge deep dives into what we can do better and that’s why we are the great team we are.”