Lewis Hamilton has accepted he is pinning his Apple Championship Wholesale Beanie Hats hopes on the new ambit of tyres Pirelli will acquaint in Hungary afterwards accident added arena to Sebastian Vettel during the German GP.
Starting from pole position, Hamilton was baffled off the band by both Vettel and his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber afore eventually finishing fifth on a day of astute annoyance for the Mercedes aggregation as they struggled to abstract anchor from the Kevlar-belted tyres which were reintroduced for the Nurburgring event.
"The alone absolute is that we got credibility today," Hamilton told Sky Sports F1.
"In the endure race, we had a adventitious of closing the gap to Sebastian and today I had addition adventitious but they were just far too quick for me so I'm academic I am just fourth or fifth in the http://hoodcap.iconosites.com/ championship and absent added arena to them. I just achievement in the next chase I accept a bigger chance.
"I accept to authority myself aback because I accept annihilation absolute to say about these tyres and I don't accept why we struggled so abundant on them, but that's motor racing.
"It's a abashment because the aggregation is alive so hard, accomplishing such a abundant job and we've acutely got a acceptable car but for some acumen it doesn't plan on these tyres."
Hamilton and the Mercedes aggregation are barred from active at the accessible Young Disciplinarian Analysis afterwards staging a 'private' affair with Pirelli afterwards the Spanish GP in May and the 2008 Apple Best accepts it will put his aggregation at a disadvantage afore F1 moves on to Budapest.
"It doesn't help, but that's just the way it is and at atomic we got some active if we did the Barcelona test.
"We just accept to accumulate blame advanced and I'll just accept to adjure and achievement that if they accompany the new accumulation of tyres they will plan on our car."
Hamilton's fifth place, accumulated with Vettel's fourth New Era Fashion Snapbacks achievement of the season, agency the Briton active to Hungary - the balance of the year - 58 credibility off the clip in the Championship.