Hamilton thinks he has had pace to challenge Verstappen at Zandvoort

Lewis Hamilton claims that he had the race pace to be competitive with Max Verstappen at the Dutch GP but missed his opportunity due to a poor qualifying session and wrong strategy calls.

Britain finished 6^th at the Formula 1 race in the Netherlands despite being in the last place in the 1^st laps when his car pit wall was slow to trigger a switch to wet weather tires.

🚨 | Lewis Hamilton says he “would’ve been challenging Max” with better strategy in Zandvoort.

He explains that Mercedes weren’t far away in terms of pace:https://t.co/vZ4ysCwZvO

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In the effort to go ahead, Lewis overtook the McLaren of Lando Norris and almost overcame the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz in the last laps of the competition.

“During the Dutch GP, I had the pace; in those conditions, if we made the right strategy, I could have challenged the top 2,” Hamilton shared with the media. “We could even compete with Verstappen for the 1^st place, particularly when we got to the dry pace-wise we weren’t so far behind.