Hamilton: F1's new wing rules 'a waste of money'

BARCELONA, Spain -- Lewis Hamilton labelled the clampdown connected Formula 1's bending beforehand wings "a discarded of money" aft seeing McLaren's vantage stay untouched retired successful front.

Speculation coming into the Spanish Grand Prix was that a caller directive from the governing FIA astir however overmuch flexing is allowed connected the beforehand helping would dent oregon eradicate McLaren's spread to the rest.

Teams person efficaciously been moving connected a antithetic beforehand helping to present successful enactment with the caller regularisation for the Barcelona race.

No turnaround materialised - Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris duly locked retired the beforehand row, having looked untouchable passim qualifying.

"What discarded of money," Hamilton laughed aft the session. "It's conscionable wasted everyone's money."

"It's virtually changed nothing. Everyone's wings inactive bend, it is conscionable fractional the bending, and everyone's had to marque caller wings, and walk much wealth to marque these. It doesn't marque sense. "

He aboriginal added: "We should beryllium giving it to charity."

Hamilton had predicted up of the play the alteration would beryllium minimal, having seen small to get excited astir successful presumption of a thigh clip summation from Ferrari's simulator.

The seven-time satellite champion qualified fifth, fractional a 2nd disconnected Piastri's rod time.

The Ferrari operator dismissed the thought anyone volition drawback McLaren successful the adjacent future.

When asked if helium agreed McLaren are "almost untouchable" retired successful front, helium said: "Yeah, yeah. It's an astonishing occupation they've done. [To] maine it's fractional a second, but to the guys successful beforehand it is 3 tenths.

"It's not an insurmountable magnitude that you could drawback up, but for example, a batch of work, months, went into processing and getting a tenth of performance. We don't person fractional a 2nd coming, that's for sure, which is what I would request to topple them."

Hamilton's show was conscionable the 2nd clip this twelvemonth helium has out-qualified Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc, who volition commencement seventh.