His Mercedes teammate German Nico Rosberg came home third.
Hamilton said, “Even if I was ahead, I would have been overtaken, I just wasn’t good overall.
“It was like I had another 50kg in the car, I was just too slow. There was just no pace.
“Ultimately I am not particularly happy with my performance, but I am very happy with the team’s performance.
“The development and hard work that has gone in has been remarkable. For whatever reasons, maybe being a new car, I have not got on well with it.
“When I get to the race I don’t know what happens. I really struggle. For a lot of races it’s been like that.”
Meanwhile, Felipe Massa claimed Ferrari’s tactical error cost him a top-five finish in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The Brazilian said he was amazed when the Italian team switched him to a new set of medium compound tyres for the final 17 laps, instead of fitting soft tyres.
“We made a mistake,” he said. “I didn’t expect to use the medium in the last stint.
“I didn’t discuss it [with the team beforehand] because for me it was clear. We were going to go on the softs. It’s better, at the beginning I was the best car on the soft tyre.
“I expected to see the soft tyres on the car and I saw the other. Without this problem I would have finished easy in the top five.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 5th, 2013.
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