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Hamilton had 'fun' moving up the field
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Although it took him a few laps to get his comeback underway at the start of the race, Hamilton was totally unleashed in the second and third stints of the race, to fail by just seven seconds behind his teammate George Russell, who was imperial throughout the Grand Prix in Las Vegas. The #44, like the rest of his team, did not really understand why the Mercedes were so superior to the rest of the pack all weekend, but that doesn't diminish his pleasure at having been able to witness this resurgence of the Silver Arrows, who have four successes this season. Without forgetting a word for the star of the day, the now four-time World Champion Max Verstappen.
“First of all I would like to congratulate Max on his title! If I had done my job yesterday I would have had a much easier race today. I still had a lot of fun coming back from tenth position, the team did a great job, I have no idea why we were so fast this weekend. The car has never been better this season. I am grateful to have been part of the team that brought the car to this level.”
The cold, Mercedes’ ally?
The Briton still tries to find a possible reason, the low temperatures recorded all weekend. Most of the sessions take place at 22:12 local time, in November, it is rarely more than 15°C in the air in Vegas. Conditions in which the WXNUMX is a little more at ease, even if for the drivers and mechanics, the staggered rhythm of the "Sin City" is not the easiest to take.
“The race is so late here, you go to bed at five or six in the morning and then you start the day much later, it’s difficult. You don’t see much sun during the day, so it changes the usual rhythm a bit. And then it’s cold! Maybe that’s why we had such a good race, with warmer conditions we might have struggled. If the car behaves like that in the next races, we could clearly fight against the best. The title is decided, we will now fight to do our best in each race.”, he concluded, with the desire to seek even more success before starting his lease at Ferrari.
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Yves-Henri RANDIER
24/11/2024 at 12:51 a.m.
He can bite his heels after missing out in Q3 during qualifying but also having a lot of trouble overtaking the 2 Ferraris while his teammate was widening the gap at the front in clean air! So he had a little time to closely analyze the behavior of the base of his future 2025 single-seater