Lewis Hamilton’s duo with his Mercedes F1 revived his position at Spanish Grand Prix.
After a difficult start this season, British driver managed to win Azerbaijan GP. He was lucky to find the first place as Bottas was leading the race when his tyre burst out forcing him to retire from race.
Briton Hamilton managed to cash his pole position and finished with 17-point ahead of his title rival, Sebastian Vettel.
He said, “It has been a rejuvenating experience. It’s the greatest feeling to come here and have that kind of performance and have a convincing win.
“Not every win feels as great as this one. It’s my 64th but feels special and unique.”
Finally, Hamilton was able to feel more connected with his car which had been missing since the start of this season.
Spanish GP was different from the rest of the races, where “at no point” he couldn’t think of acing the race.
“People probably think it was an easy race and I was cruising, but I wasn’t,” 33-year-old said.
“I was pushing every single lap using it as a test bench to understand what I liked about the balance – how can I play with it more, can I squeeze any more? And then understand what I can get more from.
“In the debrief [with the engineers], I was very particular on what I want them to work on.
“The cool thing about being a world champion is the team listen to what you say and they go away and focus on those areas, and it’s an amazing process you do together and then you come back and it works.”
Faulty Team Strategy
Toto Wolff admitted the loss was done to Hamilton at Australian GP, because of a faulty team strategy which costed him an easy win.
Wolff said, “We went to Melbourne, the car performed well, he was in the lead, solid, and then suddenly he found himself behind a Ferrari and couldn’t overtake. This is difficult to cope with.”
Both Hamilton and Wolff are concerned about the momentum at Monaco, where Mercedes struggled last year.
Hamilton said: “Monaco is going be a serious challenge. The others are going to be hard to beat. Ricciardo was much quicker in the final sector. That is all downforce. They are going to be rapid in Monaco.”
Wolff said, “It is a difficult one. Why our car doesn’t like to be quick around the corners in Monaco we haven’t found out yet.
