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Lewis Hamilton says “when the car is willing to go further, I’m willing to go further” and adds he’s “willing to go as far as it needs in order for us to win”.
Ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton explains the whole Mercedes team has been rallying together and sparing no effort to improve the team’s performance.
“You’re always digging as far as you can without depleting yourself, naturally, and I think everyone in the team is giving absolutely everything too,” the Briton said.
“That’s time away from their families, there’s times where these guys are working seven days a week. These guys are flat out so I’m trying to make sure that I’m matching their excellence.”
Lewis added he is willing to go even further in an effort to get back to the team’s winning ways.
“I think in the past it was more about the destination rather than the journey.
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“And I’m trying to enjoy the journey as we go, the struggles that we’re having, the ups and downs that we have, and just the day-to-day parts of life and being a racing driver.
“Each weekend you’re still trying to take risks and trying to get that car to do something that it doesn’t want to and that’s something I enjoy doing.
“If and when the car is willing to go further, I’m willing to go further. I’m willing to go as far as it needs in order for us to win.”
The Briton explains Mercedes’ struggles have improved the way everybody at the team works together.
“Year on year you just learn to be more efficient with your time and with your energy.
“At the end of the year we’ll – Bono [Lewis’ race engineer Peter Bonnington] and I, and Shov [Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin] – we’ll go through a list of things that worked and which didn’t work and just be honest.
“Like, ‘we keep doing this, this does not benefit my weekend at all’. Take that off and it gives you more time to focus on other areas or you add more things in which can benefit the team as a whole.
“I think the communication has improved massively in this past year and I think it’s been a really interesting process for people to be able to sit down and say: ‘You know what, we made the wrong decisions, can you work with us to help rectify it and move forwards?’
“And that’s what we’ve done this past two years. I think it has been a growing experience within the infrastructure.
“I have to probably try to commit even more time just through sheer will and wanting to get there. I think everyone has.
“But I don’t mind this because we don’t like to lose and we love the job that we do. So I’m enjoying it,” Hamilton concluded.
