Shanghai (China), March 22 -- Lewis Hamilton hit out at "yapping" critics after taking his first win for Ferrari in the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.
The seven-time champion followed up his win in only his second event for his new team with fifth place on the grid for Sunday's main event but said he was "optimistic" of a good result.
Hamilton did not identify the people he was referring to but said they "lacked understanding" of how difficult it was to achieve success straight away with a new team, the BBC reported.
The 40-year-old said: "People just love to be negative at any opportunity. Even with the smallest things, they'll just be negative about it.
"That's just the difficult time that we're living in.
"I see certain indi...