McLaren describe Lewis Hamilton’s drive in Chinese Grand Prix as magnificent – Formula 1 news
Formula 1 McLaren team has described Lewis Hamilton’s drive in the Chinese Grand Prix as ‘magnificent’ as he showed a superb performance to end Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel’s run of victories at the Shanghai circuit.
Hamilton put his all efforts on the race, especially during the last laps of the course and ended his run with 25 points for the team. The Briton was happy, since he undoubtedly recovered from his Malaysian Grand Prix performance in Shanghai.
He said, “I am absolutely overwhelmed. It feels like a long time since I was sitting here. I am proud and grateful for all the hard work I have put in. I will continue to push and looking forward to many more like this.”
Before the start of the race, Hamilton decided to use the soft compounds of Pirelli in the race.
He admitted, “I think today the strategy that we came up with going in to qualifying definitely helped. Our new option tyres seemed to last a bit longer than the guys in front.”
He added that the team was pushing to improve their performance in the race. In addition, he said the car also gave a great response to both of its drivers, including Hamilton and Jenson Button who finished his run in the fourth place with 12 points for
McLaren.
Hamilton went on to add, “I was trying to nurse my tyres and trying to pick up the pace. The guys in front of me had to do a lot of overtaking. Thumbs up to the guys back at factory, who put their heart into making the car what it is on the GP weekend.”
Despite of fuel leak issue in the garage, Hamilton went on the grid and did a great job for his team. His team principal Martin Whitmarsh paid tribute to Hamilton’s outclass performance in the Chinese Grand Prix and said that both of their drivers really
worked hard over the race, and completed their great run against the strong rivals of Formula 1.
The Chinese GP weekend was very challenging for all F1 teams, since there were plenty of pit stops during the race. The McLaren drivers were able to gather their wonderful run amongst the former top runners and put up a good show.
After this victory, the whole team especially Hamilton is looking forward to the remainder of the 2011 season.
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