Lewis Hamilton: “I gave everything I had”

A very thin gap, a handful of thousandths and less than a meter, that separated Lewis Hamilton since the conquest of the pole position of Japanese Grand Prix. The pilot of Mercedes he will thus start from the front row, but behind his rival and teammate Nico Rosberg, in a race of crucial importance from a world championship perspective.

“If I think about my lap I probably made a mistake in turn 8 and that's where I should have lost pole, but I'm relatively happy with what I did, I gave everything I had,” declared the reigning world champion at the end of the day.

“Nico has done a great job so far this weekend, he is very fast on this track: the gap could have been much bigger; I worked hard to try to reduce it and I didn't succeed. Clearly 80 centimeters - 13 thousandths - are not much, it would be better if they were in my favor, but I will certainly try to translate this deficit into 8 meters to my advantage tomorrow in the race", he reiterated Hamilton.