The seven-time world champion said “uneducated guesses” were made about his Ferrari debut last weekend, where he finished 10th in Melbourne.
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“The amount of critics and people I heard, yapping along the way, clearly not understanding maybe because they never had the experience or were unaware.
Sprint winner Lewis Hamilton celebrates (Photo: Getty)
Hamilton: People are making uneducated guesses
Hamilton went on to place fifth in qualifying for Sunday’s Grand Prix as McLaren’s Oscar Piastri claimed his first pole.
“I’m not really talking back to them or anything like that,” he added. “It’s just we live in such a strange time in the world that people just love to be negative at any opportunity, even with the smallest things, you love to be negative about it. That’s the difficult time that we’re living in.
Lewis' immediate reaction after winning for Ferrari for the first time pic.twitter.com/2OvJbS5esa
“There’s a real lack of appreciation of, it is not easy moving to a new team that works completely different, a completely different characteristic of car. You don’t just jump in and it’s good.
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“But to build long-term success with the team takes time and that’s what I’m trying to do. I’m not trying to jump-start it or get ahead of myself. I’m just taking my time to build with this great team. There’s so much potential in this team.
“But in general, I’ve been feeling really good in the car, and as I’m learning more where the car likes to be set up for a track like this, for example, when I get to another track, the site, the last one, I think I have a bit of a better understanding of where to put it.”
Sprint winner Lewis Hamilton salutes the crowd (Photo: Getty)“We’ve just come from a race where we finished 10th, so there are so many factors to really take into account,” he added.
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“We just can’t get ahead of ourselves off that one result that we just had.
“So not making the mistakes is going to be key. But I think we seem to be there or thereabouts this weekend, which is really good.
“I’m hoping that there’s a lot of learnings from last week that we applied already to this week and the car has been in a much better place, so I hope that we can keep it there. And if we can, then yes, that makes me happy.”
The Chinese Grand Prix starts on 7am UK time on Sunday.
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