Lewis Hamilton has praised Charles Leclerc for his racing discipline after the duo endured an intense battle at the British Grand Prix.
Hamilton says that it was vastly different to his experience in 2021, when he was involved in a number of on-track incidents with title rival Max Verstappen.
The seven-time World Champion and Verstappen had one of their various collisions at last year’s race at Silverstone, with Verstappen retiring on the opening lap of the race.
The incident happened at the high-speed Copse corner, however both Leclerc and Hamilton went side-by-side through the same section at the 2022 edition of the race without making contact.
Hamilton eventually moved ahead of Leclerc for the final spot on the podium and took time to praise the Monegasque driver after the race.
“Charles did a great job, what a great battle,” he told Sky F1. “He is a very sensible driver – clearly a lot different to what I experienced last year.
“At Copse for example, the two of us went through there with no problem. What a battle.
“We had to have a tyre deficit to get past him. Really, really amazing weekend.”
Hamilton looked to be on course for his first grand prix win of the 2022 season before a Safety Car neutralised the race with 10 laps to go.
The 37-year-old admits that he was eyeing up taking the top step of the podium, but says that matters went against him and the Mercedes team on Sunday.
“For a while it [the race win] was feeling on,” Hamilton said. “A bunch of things went against us.
“The start, we got up to third then they put us back to fifth. Then I lost ground to Lando [Norris], so I spent a bunch of laps trying to get past him.
“Then the gap was five or six seconds to the Ferraris. But I was doing good time, catching them up, I did a good long stint and I thought: ‘Yes, maybe we can fight for a win here.’
“But unfortunately the gap was too big and the pitstop was not very quick. At the end, I just struggled with the warm-up and lost out to two cars. It was so tough today.”
More condescending remarks from Lewis. He either has zero self-awareness, or is just an arrogant pr*ck.
Jan…I think you are the arrogant D#£k with comprehensively zero talent at reading a statement. You’d rather just blast ahead, pinching people’s jugulars and fire off an insulting rambling text from your Cage. Maybe you should take your White hooded robe and burn a cross somewhere else you deplorable muppet !
Take your fellow Cancerous knuckle draggers with you. Perhaps your raisin size testes are creating the need to fire off 🔥 rubbish on all F1 sites.
Please allow yourself the courtesy, to remove the rubber band clasping your testes and let your brain get some oxygenated blood back in there.
Or….is the Vet spaying you on Monday morning ?
Then I understand & appreciate the need for your venting and realise you are “Special”
Thoughts and weak prayers for your loss !!
You are the definition of mental illness. Perhaps you should consider checking into a psychiatric hospital, or better yet book an appointment with the local veterinarian to be euthanatized.
jesus, seek help biff.
The latter a prick
Max drives like a kn0b, always has done, always will do. Bout time he’s just plain called out about it.
Biff/Mick/Lambert/any other name you use, not sure what this has to do with Max or why you assume someone who criticises Lewis is a Max fan. The world doesn’t revolve around Max vs. Lewis, especially considering Lewis isn’t even in the same ballpark as Max or three other drivers at this point.
Volgens mij was jij het zelf Hamillton die Max vorig jaar bewust van de baan afreed, op een zelfde wijze hoe je meerdere andere coureurs in diverse races van de baan reed. Jij was degene die fout was, niet Max. Maar het feit dat Hamilton het weer aanhaalt, betekent dat Max nog steeds in het hoofd van Hamilton zit :-).