6 . MONACO GRAND PRIX SEVENTH
In racing you have good days and bad days . Today was a bad day for me . I didn ’ t have the pace to fight for the win and we need to understand why . It was possibly a brake issue – but I don ’ t know for sure yet . I didn ’ t feel like I could push to the limit at the beginning of the race on the wet tyres . It was a simple decision to accept the request from the team to let Lewis past – even if it hurt very much in that moment . I was very far off the pace and Lewis quite clearly had the speed to win for the team . We ’ ve always had that rule – if you ’ re ahead and the other guy has a chance to win , you give him that chance . From there it just didn ’ t go my way . I had a tricky pit stop and was held in the box because there was traffic in pit lane . So the cars were just streaming by and suddenly I was down to sixth .