WINNER LEWIS HAMILTON
The team obviously told us what the tyres could do,
how far they would go. I wasn’t really sure how far
the ultrasoft would go. I had already seen graining
earlier when I was behind Sebastian. So I was a
little bit nervous about it, but it seemed to last, which
was great. I could have kept going on the ultrasoft,
which was interesting; I had a good pace. Then we
swapped. It was a long stint on the information we
got before that that tyre could last quite a long time
and it was just a beauty. I didn’t have to push too
much on the tyre at the beginning, just looking after
them, but very conscious that this guy [Vettel] behind
was pushing. I was really enjoying the race with
him, you know, just battling times here and there.
He was so quick and it’s great to see how quick
they are and they are really giving us a run for our
money, and I just happened to be on a one stop. But
fantastic job by the team. I’m really overwhelmed to
think just how difficult this season was before these
last two races and I feel incredibly grateful and very
blessed to have had these two great weekends. I’m
just going to keep working hard, as you can see I’m
super-focused. For me I felt that was one of my
best races for a while, maybe not as good as the
last one, but still really happy with it. Onwards and
upwards hopefully.