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After the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton says ‘it was amazing to watch how good Lando Norris’ car was in high speed’.
After a Safety Car period at the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton on soft tyres was trying to overtake Lando Norris on hards, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
After the race, Lewis explained he was very impressed by the speed of Norris’ McLaren.
“The most impressive part was at the end following him,” Hamilton said.
“Honestly, it was just… it was nice… it was amazing to watch how good his car was in high speed. And I know that we’ve got some work to do to catch up.”
He added that the speed was such, that he even wondered if he had pressed his “overtake button”.
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“I threw it up the insight into Turn 7 in the hope that I can finally… This is the moment that I’m going to make it happen and I pressed the overtake button… [I was thinking:] ‘Did you press the overtake button?’
“So we’re both going down the road with the overtake but he had less drag so I guess he said they had a smaller wing and they just started pulling so I had to back out.
“But I was relatively quick in the first half of the lap and I think if you look at our qualifying laps, we were very, very close to Max all the way until… I think it’s until Turn 13.
“And then that’s where they pull all their time. So we’ve got some work to do to improve our high speed performance.”
When asked to comment on Lando’s racecraft, Lewis said:
“Yeah, once again, he is very talented, naturally, as you can see and I think is great when you can have close battles like that and rely on the driver that you’re competing with to be fair and hard but fair.
“And so there was never an element or a moment where we thought we were going to come together or anything like that. And then that’s what motor racing is all about.
“As he wanted to hold onto second, I wanted to get that second but it wasn’t meant to be today.
“So we just get our heads down and keep pushing and hopefully we’ll have some more battles moving forward,” the Briton concluded.
