Lewis Hamilton shocked by Mercedes' instructions

Failure to comply with the instruction addressed to Lewis Hamilton in favor of Nico Rosberg cost the German driver victory? If the boss of Mercedes Motorsport Toto wolff, think that the championship leader would have had his chance face Daniel Ricciardo et Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton admitted to being shocked by such a request.

“I was in the same race as Nico. If he had to make one more stop it wouldn't change things, explains the 2008 World Champion. And naturally, if I had let it pass, it would have had the opportunity to break away and after stopping, it would have come back. I was shocked that the team asked me to do it. To be honest, he was never close enough to overtake me but I wasn't going to brake and risk losing ground to Fernando or Daniel to allow him to pass. So it was a little strange. But we have a long way to go, and I hope we can come back stronger after this. »

Lewis Hamilton finally finished on the podium at the Hungaroring after an incredible comeback, and despite an initial exit from the track, and took three points from Rosberg, to be only 11 points behind in the championship while the F1 begins its three-week summer break before the next Grand Prix in Belgium on August 24.

Find the report and analysis of the Hungarian Grand Prix, produced by our special correspondents in Budapest, in the 1971 issue of AUTOhebdo, available this evening in digital version and from Wednesday on newsstands.