Lewis Hamilton faces a tough debut on Sunday (Image: Getty)
is facing a challenging debut with after admitting that he ‘doesn’t know the rain settings’ for the SF-25. The seven-time world champion was eighth-fastest on Saturday at the , qualifying one spot behind new team-mate .
expected to be fighting for pole position around the Albert Park Circuit, but the Prancing Horse were left licking their wounds after both cars qualified on the fourth row of the grid, behind both and .
For Hamilton, this was no disaster. The Brit avoided any major scares with the elimination zone despite spinning at the end of his final Q2 lap and was close to Leclerc in Q3. Sunday’s race, however, will be a different beast.
Speaking to Sky Sports F1, he said: “I generally feel good. Yeah, I had a really good time out there. Everything has been a first this weekend – my first P1 with , my first practice sessions and qualifying, and it has been a lot of work to really adapt to this car that is so much different here to what I have experienced in the past.
“But it has been interesting. I mean I definitely didn’t expect us to be… I didn’t know that we would be nine tenths off, or eight tenths off today, but there is a lot to dissect for sure.”
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