Hamilton said he was expecting another hard weekend either in Spa or at the Italian race in Monza the following weekend because he will be hit with a grid penalty for using too many engines.
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“We’re lucky in Formula One because we have the radio, we have the best cars, we have the best marshals but if there’s a young guy racing Formula Renault 2.0 who sees they can do a pole position under a yellow flag then he’s going to go for the same and there may be marshals or whatever on the track”.
“Michael was the first to make Formula One popular in Germany, it didn’t have a local hero before”, Vettel said. Race-day crowds have halved at Hockenheim since Schumacher’s days.
Esteban Gutierrez wishes for a positive German Grand Prix this weekend before the Summer break. It’s just I haven’t had any vehicle problems.
“I feel like I’m still chasing”, said Hamilton.
Germany is the last race before Formula One’s summer break and I guess we’re where we expected to be in terms of who’s leading the championship, but perhaps not with regards to the margin.
Of course, that gives Lewis the advantage but he knows he needs to build a buffer as he’s not got as many engine units to play with as Nico.
“The corners are good for that, approaching the corners in different ways, that gives you a lot of fuel saving”.
He has won five of the last six races to turn a 43-point deficit to team-mate Nico Rosberg into a six-point lead.
Hamilton was the victor of this race in 2011 and 2008. I was mightily impressed by that and it sent another message to his team-mate as did the post-race press conference.
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“It was a little bit uncomfortable but I am very pleased to be back here at the Hockenheimring and everything is fine now to go racing”, he said. It is a scant margin for error that has created division amongst drivers, with many wanting greater clarification on what “lifting” represents ahead of this weekend’s German Grand Prix. Unfortunately, there was no German race past year due to financial difficulties, meaning that Rosberg was the event’s last victor.
