Lewis Hamilton believes Sebastian Vettel can dominate in the season ahead – Formula 1 news
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton believes that Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing has the potential to dominate in the season ahead.
Hamilton said that Vettel showed an amazing pace in the European GP held at Valencia Street Circuit in Spain as he had a lead of 20 seconds. However, his alternator gave him away when it stopped working and the veteran German driver could not score even
a single point as he was retired.
Moreover, the 2008 world champion said that he is expecting a strong competition from the top teams while he didn’t underestimated other contenders in the fight for the championship title.
“Vettel could dominate for the rest of the year. The pace he had at the last race was ridiculous 20 seconds in 10 laps or something. It is going to be Red Bull, Ferrari and us but maybe some other people,” he said.
At present, McLaren are standing at second place in the constructors’ championship with 137 points. Moreover, they are 39 points behind the defending champions and 11 points ahead of Lotus.
Meanwhile, Hamilton is at third place in the drivers’ rankings with 88 points between Red Bull pair of drivers, Vettel and Mark Webber. On the other hand, his teammate, Jenson Button is at 8th position in the drivers’ championship with 49 points.
In addition, he said that they need to keep on making the considerable progress to enhance the pace of MP4-27 in the approaching races to make their position stronger in this year’s championship battle.
“We have got to start bringing all the small bits, the details and everything. I have been in the factory and I am reassured that we have things, they have been tested and been in simulator. So it is question of pushing to get those things and hoping that
they deliver what they are saying,” he said.
Furthermore, he said that his target is to score some reasonable points in each and every race ahead. He also said that he is confidently looking forward to deliver his best in his home race which is to be held at Silverstone Circuit on July 8.
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