Looks like it’s going to be a good race tomorrow! Can’t wait until the race!
Clearly, we’re very competitive – Jenson and I both qualified in the top three – but Seb [Vettel] was mega-quick today. In Q1 and Q2 we were pretty close to him, but he pulled out another half-second in Q3. It was an extremely good lap.
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Unfortunately Lewis Hamilton didn’t finish the Belgian F1 race as there was a collision with Kobayashi. Up until then Lewis was having a good race. After overtaking Kobayashi, Lewis moved over back onto the racing line but unfortunately couldn’t see the speed Kobayashi had gained (he had less wing on the car) and he was moving to the outside or the circuit just before taking the corning they collided.
Personally I can’t say that it really was Hamilton’s fault. As a fan I’d have to simply say that Lewis was in front and he was going back onto the racing line after the overtake. The driver behind has to lift if there isn’t enough room on the track. Anyway, Monza next, should be awesome!
It wasn’t as simple as just going from 13th to third today. At the start, somebody hit me at the rear and damaged a rear-wing endplate. At the exit of Turn One, there was debris everywhere, and somebody else’s front wing went through my front wing and sliced my right-side mirror off. I also had to make an early pitstop, so it was hardly perfect!
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It was an interesting race today with Lewis overtaking Sebastian Vettel early in the race and leading for a good part of the race. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work out for Hamilton as he went on to the intermediate tyre when it started to rain slightly – which soon stopped soon causing for another pit stop to change the tyres. Lewis also had to serve a drive-through penalty. After Lewis had a spin, he did a 180 to face the right direction causing Paul Di Resta to swerve around Lewis by going off the track.
Big congratulations to Jenson. He pushed me hard and he deserved to win the race. I felt sorry for the team that we didn’t get a one-two, but at least one of us got the victory.
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Lewis Hamilton qualified very well on Saturday and drove a supreme race in Germany on Sunday. It was an exciting race from start to finish with Hamilton, Alsonso and Webber in the leading group of cars. The highlight of the race was Hamilton overtaking Alonso around the outside of turn 2!
It was a must-see action packed race. If you missed it then catch the highlights on BBC iPlayer now! (UK only)
Very much looking forward to next weekend’s race in Hungary!
Every win is special – but with all the emotion, effort and energy the team put into today’s victory, this one feels even more special than usual.
Coming into this weekend, I said I’d take things one race at a time. So to win today is massively positive for us, but there’s a long way to go and it’ll be about consistency as well as speed from here on in.
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First of all I want to say a huge congratulations to the whole team, who did a great job today. Everyone back at the factory and here at the circuit has been working massively hard, and that’s the reason why the car was so quick today. I think we all underestimated how good the car would be, in fact.
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“I could feel the home fans spurring me on”
Before the end, I had to start saving fuel: you have to lift and coast, which means the brake temperatures drop. So I had no brakes, and that’s why I kept locking up. That allowed Mark [Webber] to slip ahead of me and meant I was defending from Felipe [Massa] in the closing laps.
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I got a poor start and lost out to both Ferraris.
After that, it was a long race – the team asked me to stay out for as long as I could, and I was pushing all the way, but I struggled with oversteer and to be honest didn’t feel totally comfortable with the tyres.
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Lewis did well to qualify in 3rd position behind Vettel and Webber today, with Button only managing 6th.
Looking forward to an exciting and probably close race on the Valencia street circuit in Spain tomorrow. Lewis qualified much better than in the last few races so hopefully everything should go a lot smoother for him in the race tomorrow.
I’m excited to be in the fight: we can win from this position. Of course, we’ll need a bit of luck with the strategy and the pitstops, but our guys are on great form. You’ve got to be fortunate and maximise absolutely everything to get ahead of the Red Bulls – and, hopefully, that can happen tomorrow.
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Another weekend that hasn’t gone Lewis Hamilton’s way. You could see that Lewis was driving very well, pushing and overtaking cars until the misunderstanding with his McLaren team-mate.
It seems that the root of the recent problems lie with the qualifying results as this is putting Lewis in a lower grid position which is putting extra pressure on him to make it back to the front to keep in touch with Vettel.
It has to be said that it didn’t exactly go Vettel’s way either who made a mistake on the last lap letting Jenson Button through to take the win.
First of all, I have to offer my heartfelt congratulations to Jenson – he drove an absolutely incredible race and thoroughly deserved this victory. It was an utterly fantastic performance, from a truly great driver.
I’m also sorry for the team; they’ve worked really hard this week and we could have done with the points that a two-car finish would have earned us today.
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It wasn’t a superb weekend for Lewis.
I think it basically was down to Qualifying 3, where Hamilton didn’t manage to show his real speed for various reasons (traffic/blocked, not enough runs, red flag etc., whatever it was down to, it wasn’t helping).
Not starting from where he should have started (most likely pole or there about) can’t be good – especially Monaco. So this situation can be frustrating.
Anyway, I think Martin made some objective comments after the race (below). Also he was saying that Lewis apologised to the race stewards afterwards about the ‘joke’ comment (this fact has most likely escaped most reporters or maybe it’s simply not dramatic enough for them to report.
Looking forward to the next race.
It’s been a disappointing weekend, really.
This afternoon, in the race itself, I made some strong moves on three drivers – Michael [Schumacher], Felipe [Massa] and Pastor [Maldonado] – and I got penalised for two of them.
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