Hamilton happy to see the back of 'unwanted' Mercedes

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ABU DHABI: Lewis Hamilton was happy to see the back of his Mercedes on Sunday after enduring the first season without a win, or a pole position, of his record-breaking Formula One career. The seven-times world champion, who made a sensational F1 debut with McLaren in 2007, retired from the final Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI: Lewis Hamilton was happy to see the back of his Mercedes on Sunday after enduring the first season without a win, or a pole position, of his record-breaking Formula One career.

"Ultimately I think we started with a car that we didn't want and we finished with a car that we didn't want," the Briton, winner of a record 103 races, told Sky Sports television. It was the third time in 16 seasons that Hamilton had been beaten over the course of a championship by a team mate after Jenson Button did so in 2011 at McLaren and Nico Rosberg in 2016 at Mercedes.

"A car that was not at the pace it should have been, third quickest today and one breaking down and the other running out of tyres," said the Austrian of the evening's result.

 

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