NO DRINKING
I
t was clear from his radio communication
to the Mercedes pitwall during the
Spanish Grand Prix that Lewis Hamilton
was out of breath, even flustered at times,
and it now transpires that the race winner
did not have a drink on board.
After his hard fought victory in
Barcelona, Hamilton revealed to media, “A
lot of the races that we do with the type of
racing that we sometimes have to do, where
you’re saving fuel, like in the last race for
example [Russia], I couldn’t push because
the car was overheating.”
“Whereas [in Spain] it was [pushing]
from Turn 1 to the end, it was flat chat.
You’re just using everything you’ve got so
for sure, in that first stint, for instance. To
stay on Sebastian was a killer.”
“Also I don’t carry drinks in my car
either to save weight, so I’m not having a
drink through the race. And then at the end,
I used everything I had left when I jumped
into my team and my heart rate hit the
ceiling.”
“I was good when I got out of the car
but jumping… I don’t know if I will do that
again. I was a little bit tired after that one,”
added the triple F1 World Champion.
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff played down
Hamilton’s tone over the radio, “I think it
was just an expression of how hard he was
pushing.”
“When you need to follow a car that
close behind, you obviously haven’t got the
aerodynamic benefit of the guy in front. That
is difficult. He gave it all and you could hear
it on the radio,” added the team boss.