Lewis Hamilton says tyre warm-up issues is why he only qualified fifth for the United States Grand Prix in Austin.Having been the best non-Red Bull runner in final practice, the 2008 World Champion was over three tenths of a second slower in the afternoon as he failed to get this Pirelli rubber into the required operating window. Team-mate Nico Rosberg fared even worse and went out in Q2 after posting the 14th quickest time, but that was of scant consolation to Hamilton. "Not really as I want to fight the guys in front," he told Sky Sports F1 when asked if he was relieved it was not worse. "It wasn't a great qualifying, for some reason these tyres are not working perfectly,...
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