UNPREDICTABLE
L
ewis Hamilton would not have
put money on his title fortunes
turning around so quickly
but the Mercedes driver could be
back on top of the Formula 1 world
championship after the next round,
the European Grand Prix in Baku.
Victory in the Canadian Grand
Prix, following the Briton’s victory
in Monaco two weeks earlier,
transformed his chances of ending the
season with a fourth drivers’ crown.
From being 43 points behind
German team mate Nico Rosberg
two races ago, Hamilton heads for
Azerbaijan and Sunday’s inaugural
grand prix in Baku trailing by nine
points.
Rosberg won the opening four
rounds of the season but his form
has taken a dive since he and
Hamilton collided in Barcelona. Both
Mercedes drivers retired from that
race, while Rosberg was seventh in
Monaco and fifth in Canada.
“If I’d wanted to have put money
down, I would never have tried to
predict that,” Hamilton told reporters
when asked about the turnaround.
I thought Monaco in terms of the
difference in position might have
been a one-off.”
“It doesn’t feel great when we
don’t finish one-two. On the flip side,
it is a positive in terms of the points
but Nico is going to continue to push
and I will continue to push.”