“It’s been a great start but I’m just enjoying the moment and the form I’m in, doing my best to keep it going and hoping I can carry it through the end of the season. There are 425 points still up for grabs – and anything can happen yet”.
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“So the glass is half full for me”.
Hamilton, who went from 10th to second at Sochi after his second successive power unit failure pushed him down the grid, will be even more determined to turn the tide while McLaren’s Fernando Alonso can count on strong home support.
“It’s not something I could have expected – winning the first four races of the year”, the German said. I think there is a chance to have a good race, as there is a chance of making some mistakes. I’ve known that since Day 1 in testing. The best way for me to try and win Barcelona is to think about Barcelona.
Last week, Mercedes published an open letter to fans to dismiss speculation that it was favoring Rosberg over Hamilton.
Toto Wolff vows to raise with Bernie Ecclestone the issue of Mercedes’s under-representation on television, despite their ongoing dominance of F1. “I can’t afford Nico to gain a massive advantage as I’ll have to work hard to claw back points lost”. “If you push the limits, then at a certain stage you risk stepping over them”.
Kvyat paid the price for his collisions with former Red Bull favourite and four-time world champion German Sebastian Vettel in China and Russian Federation, incidents that incensed both Ferrari and Red Bull.
The Ferrari chief also gave his vote of confidence to Vettel and Raikkonen, who have both been hit by misfortune this season.
The Spanish Grand Prix is the traditional start to the mainstream European leg of the F1 season, and the Barcelona track is well-known to drivers and teams who use it regularly for pre-season tests. It’s also where many teams start introducing significant upgrades to their cars, which could prompt a few surprises. It is a circuit that a good vehicle overall normally goes well because you have a little bit of everything, high-speed corners and low-speed corners.
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Driving a Formula 1 auto is one of the most grueling jobs on the planet, and though race vehicle drivers strangely aren’t thought of as “athletes” in the same sense as Olympians or football players, managing to drive a auto as quickly as possible for an hour and a half is a daunting task.
