F1 | Hamilton: “At the end of the race I lifted my foot”

He started from pole position and reached the finish line second, in the grip of the two Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, a little lacking in his faithful squire Valtteri Bottas and a little abandoned by luck, who today decided to visit the garage instead Ferrari, was unable to finish the first round of the season in the lead, despite the sensational pole on Saturday. The pilot Mercedes, who at the end tried to catch Seb's Red, had to lift his foot, having trouble with the rear tires - even if he was seen fiddling with the steering wheel settings in the final laps. The important thing, however, is to focus on the positive aspects now, and think about the next appointment.

“It's certainly painful to lose like this, as in any case when you don't win, but I try to focus on the positive aspects and there are a lot of them this weekend. I think at the end yesterday the Ferrari have proven to be fast, and today they confirmed it. I don't think the gap is what we saw in qualifying, maybe I had just done a good lap and Seb not enough. I would have liked to fight a little more towards the end, but in any case they were about 1 tenth of us in race pace, so there is some margin to make up."

“I believe that there will be races in which we can fight, but also others in which qualifying will be important, like today, even if here the strategy was the one that counted the most. We need to make sure we understand what happened and see that the same problem doesn't happen again."