Hamilton limited the damage well

Like his teammate Nico Rosberg, the three-time world champion took advantage of the consecutive red flag at Fernando Alonso crash to mount the medium tires and gain the advantage over Sebastian Vettel.

“It was a wonderful race.”, declared the Briton. “I loved having to climb back up even though it was very difficult. The goal was to come back to those who had better performing tires… Ferrari has responded and this promises exciting races to come. I did the best I could after this bad start. I limited the damage because Nico could have had many more points than me today. »

Lewis Hamilton was not disturbed by the new radio limitations, its strategy having been modified during the interruption. “It didn’t make a difference to me. This is positive because we can, for example, control our engine and decide what we do with it. But I don't think these changes were necessary, the regulations should focus more on single-seaters to allow us to follow each other., added the reigning world champion.

The Briton would nevertheless prefer that the regulations focus more on optimizing overtaking, even if the driver Mercedes was put under pressure by Sebastian Vettel in the last laps.

“Sebastian was right behind me on better tires, but I think he went wide because of the aero. It’s very hard to follow a car closely and that’s what we want.”, underlined the world champion.

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