“I have no words, just a lot of anger” – Lewis Hamilton’s raw reaction to another Q1 nightmare | Abu Dhabi GP. Lewis Hamilton suffers his fourth consecutive Q1 elimination with Ferrari in Abu Dhabi.

F1 | Hamilton knocked out in Q1 again: “I have no words left, only a lot of anger”

It is now a fourth consecutive Q1 elimination for the Ferrari driver, who went through another difficult Saturday that had already started with an incident at Turn 9 during FP2. Starting from 16th place, the only realistic strategy for tomorrow is to begin on the hard tyres and extend the first stint: “For me it’s the same thing every weekend, so we will try”.

It is safe to say that Lewis Hamilton would never have imagined finishing his first year as a Ferrari driver with four straight Q1 eliminations, not even in his worst nightmares. A season that has already been extremely complicated for the seven-time world champion is now ending in the worst possible way, because even in Abu Dhabi he was forced to give up at the end of the first segment of qualifying.

This time the Ferrari driver was knocked out by just eight thousandths of a second by Yuki Tsunoda, a truly tiny margin. But what hurts even more is the fact that this is the third Grand Prix in a row in which he has failed to reach Q2, and the eliminations are four in a row if we include the Sprint Qualifying session in Las Vegas, where the verdict had been exactly the same.

This time, however, there is at least a small justification for Lewis, because today he lost most of FP3 due to an incident at Turn 9: “It definitely doesn’t help when you can’t do the second run, but the car was feeling great. I just had a bit of bottoming and lost the rear,” he said about the crash, later explaining that it was not caused by a technical problem: “No, the guys just repaired it and saw that there was some bouncing.”

On top of that, the British driver had also missed yesterday morning’s FP1 session, giving up his SF-25 cockpit to Arthur Leclerc, as Ferrari still had a rookie outing to allocate: “It never helps when you run less, but we are all in the same boat.”

These partial excuses, however, are not enough to lift Lewis Hamilton’s morale, and he clearly had very different expectations for this 2025 season: “I don’t have the words to express how I feel, only a lot of anger.”

Tomorrow he will once again find himself starting from the 16th slot on the grid: “There’s not much that can be done,” he said when asked about his prospects. When he was then asked whether starting on the hard tyres and extending the first stint might still produce something positive, he continued: “For me it’s the same thing every weekend, so we will try.”

For a driver who has spent two decades rewriting the record books, closing 2025 stuck in the midfield and lost for words is a stark reminder of how quickly fortunes can turn in Formula 1.