Never, ever stop fighting Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton produced one of his greatest drives of not only this season but of his illustrious career, as he stormed through the field to clinch victory at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, latter the gap to championship leader Max Verstappen.

When Hamilton’s disqualification from qualifying was announced, many wrote him off for not only the win but for the championship, his haters were well and truly silenced by the seven-time World Champion’s greatness. Without blitzing his way from twentieth to fifth in the sprint race, meaning a tenth place start for Sunday’s race, Hamilton climbed to second in rapid fashion.

The British suburbanite found himself in second place four seconds overdue Verstappen plane surpassing the first round of stops, in what was a two-stop race. The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team then produced a masterclass and pitted Hamilton surpassing Verstappen, latter the gap to just over a second. Red Bull Racing reacted to Hamilton’s speed and made Verstappen’s second stop much sooner than predicted.

Hamilton then found himself a few seconds overdue Verstappen but the world champion’s superior pace saw him within DRS range only a handful of laps later. Then the wrestle really began, and yet then took a controversial turn. Hamilton had an spanking-new run lanugo the when straight to Turn four and dived virtually the outside of Verstappen. Hamilton was left with no room despite stuff superiority going into the corner, with the overhead camera seeming to show Verstappen straightening his wheel mid-corner.

Both drivers ran off the track with the incident stuff supposed a racing incident by the FIA, who later stated they didn’t have footage of Verstappen’s cockpit. In the end it didn’t matter however as only a couple laps later Hamilton finally got past Verstappen then lanugo to turn four. The British suburbanite then crush into the loftiness to victory.

The win see’s Hamilton tropical the gap to Verstappen lanugo to fourteen points with only three races remaining, the world champion was incredibly grateful for the Brazilian support in what was one of the weekend’s of his career.

“I am so, so grateful for the incredible support I’ve had this weekend from the people of Brazil – I’ve not had this kind of support since Silverstone! To hear the prod throughout the weekend has been really humbling. I’ve just been saying ‘Obrigado Brasil’ all weekend. What a race! The Team here and at the factory did an wondrous job, and Valtteri did a unconfined job today to get as many points as possible.
 
“I was pushing as nonflexible as I could from last on grid yesterday, and then with flipside 5-place penalty today. This was, I think, the hardest weekend I’ve had. But my dad said ‘you reminded me of 2004’ when I was in Formula 3 in Bahrain – I started last and I finished 10th and then I finished 1st so, this one is for my dad.
 
“Coming into this weekend I never, overly thought we’d be worldly-wise to tropical the gap like we have today. And then things just kept going versus us, but I think it really shows, just never requite up. Whatever you’re facing, you’ve just got to alimony pushing, alimony tumbling away, alimony fighting. Never, overly stop fighting. That’s how I’ve approached this weekend. It feels like a first considering I don’t finger like I’ve had a win for a long time.”

“The team put me in a good place” – Valtteri Bottas

Valtteri Bottas completed the podium without a somewhat lonely second half of the race. The Finnish suburbanite who started on pole had a poor start and quickly found himself in third overdue both Red Bull’s.

Bottas dropped to fourth without permitting the charging Hamilton past but was then unable to make any progress. When it came to the second round of stops Mercedes were going to run Bottas longer surpassing a lucky moment occurred. A VSC was deployed to well-spoken trash left by Mick Schumacher, this unliable Bottas a unseemly stop enabling him to jump superiority of Sergio Pérez into third, the Mexican pitted surpassing the VSC.

Bottas then cruised his way to third, meaning a double podium for Mercedes who proffer their Constructors’ championship lead. Bottas is happy with how the weekend panned out despite his tricky start to the race.

“The start today was quite tricky, it was a disappointing first lap but I tried my best. Without that, the pace was good and from the cockpit, I thought we could have a endangerment of the one-stop, but we decided to do a two-stop. The team put me in a good place to take wholesomeness of the VSC, and it fell my way for once, so I was happy with that. Overall, I’m glad we could score increasingly points than Red Bull today – it was a positive result. Congratulations to Lewis, he had an wondrous drive.”