Lewis Hamilton didn't listen to his engineer

Author of a very bad start, Lewis Hamilton spat on his hands to come out on top at the end of the 53 laps of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza this Sunday. A still unknown reason for preventing the Briton's W05 Hybrid from starting the start sequence.

“Before the start there is a button you press that engages the launch sequence for the formation lap and it didn't work, Hamilton explains. Then I thought no problem, I'll put it on the start. Then, when I got to the gate, I insisted and once again it didn't work. It's very, very strange. This had never happened before. Then there was a different sequence of lights, which are not the usual ones. I tried to start as quickly as possible. Fortunately I managed not to lose too many places. In the end, my race engineer told me that I needed to slow down, but from past experiences and also what happened in 2014, I knew that was not the way to go. I chose another path. The car was good and I had never been so close to Nico. »

Lewis Hamilton returns with his sixth success in 2014, 22 points behind Nico Rosberg in the championship standings.

Find the report of the Italian Grand Prix, produced by our special correspondents in Monza, in issue 1977 of AUTOhebdo, available from tomorrow evening in digital version and from next Wednesday on newsstands.