Lewis Hamilton has played down his hopes of being able to makeswift progress through the field in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix, fearing he'llbe stuck in a DRS train. The Briton ended Saturday's qualifying session in fifth place,but will start the race in 19th spot after a penalty for exceedinghis season's quota of power units. But despite Mercedes generally having the third-fastest car thisseason, Hamilton said he was fearful of being stuck in a sequence of slipstreamingcars that would not be easy to overtake. "I was behind Valtteri [Bottas] in practice and I couldn’t catchhim nor pass him, so I hope I don’t get stuck [behind other cars in the race]," Hamilton toldmedia including RacingNews365.com . "ButI'm imagining everyone's going to be in a DRS train and it's just going to besitting there and just waiting for strategy and tyre degradation and thosesorts."
Hamilton praying for Safety Cars
The Briton quipped that he would be so bored stuck behind othercars that he may as well while away the time watching shows on his iPad, but addedthat he was hoping for a topsy-turvy race to help him vault up the order. "I hope that there's Safety Cars and all those sorts of things," said Hamilton. "I've been so unfortunate with the Safety Car timings this year,it would be nice to have a nice SC offering tomorrow. "Iwas thinking of just taking my iPad with me in the race and when I'm in the DRSline watching the new Game of Thrones."
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