That put him in position to become the first driver since 1955, to win this race three times in a row. “I got up to second and that was the best I could do with such a loss at the start”.
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The 36-year-old McLaren driver, who won the world championship in 2009, has competed in every grand prix season since the turn of the century and, following a career which has yielded almost 300 starts, 15 victories and 50 podiums, revealed on Saturday that he will not participate in the sport in a full-time role next year.
In what turned out to be a relatively clean race, Nico Rosberg crossed the line first to take home his 21st career win and first at Monza.
“It was all down to the start”.
However, disaster struck for Hamilton when a slow start saw him drop to sixth and allow Rosberg and a host of other cars to overtake. “I knew that my engineers would be anxious or nervous of how the start went, so I tried to put their mind at ease”.
Palmer was quite angry after retiring, speaking to channel 4, he said: “I tried to take a place from Nasr and he forced me off the track and we crashed. I did everything normal”, he said.
Rosberg was predictably delighted to record his seventh Grand Prix victory of the season as he seeks to snatch the world title from Hamilton.
Hamilton revealed that wheelspin off the line left him unable to keep the chasing pack behind him, and the Mercedes driver reached the first corner down in sixth as Rosberg led the Ferrari pair of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen as well as the Williams of Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton took the pole and was looking to win at Monza for the third straight year. He clawed his way up to second and though he made up some ground on Rosberg it was never going to be enough to close the gap. “Simple as that”, the German said.
How did Hamilton throw it away?
“We had been dominant all weekend and it was less than a tenth which lost us the weekend – that’s tough for everyone”, said Hamilton.
However, at Singapore past year they struggled with Hamilton eventually being forced to retire.
“No, because as I say I am not thinking about it”. “I got a great start and that gave me the race win in the end, because from then on I was able to control the pace and we had good speed”.
“The reason the rules were changed a year ago was to give more responsibility to the driver and make it more variable”, Wolff said.
“Many things probably merged into each other, and this is why I’m curious and excited to see how Singapore is going to work out”.
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Mercedes AMG PETRONAS driver Lewis Hamilton was somewhat down-hearted after last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, when a bad start put paid to any chances of him winning the race.
