Lewis Hamilton says his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver has left him motivated to work as laborious as doable to realize his dream of profitable for the Scuderia at Monza.
Ferrari at all times enjoys large help at its house race, with the tifosi out in big numbers from the beginning of the weekend. Hamilton was half of a big fan occasion in central Milan earlier within the week and spent a while after the race on the pit wall participating with the group on the pit straight, and he says the particular expertise lived as much as expectations.
“I believe it was every little thing you can ever hope for,” Hamilton stated. “After all you need to be combating on the entrance, however it was simply unbelievable to be on the receiving finish. I imply, it is simply Ferrari all the way in which across the monitor. You see the pit straight now, it’s so far as the attention can see.
“It is a dream to drive for this crew and I am actually simply going to work as laborious as I can to in the future stand on the highest of that podium. That is my dream.”
Hamilton had been aggressive all weekend and certified fifth, one spot behind teammate Charles Leclerc, however needed to begin tenth attributable to a grid penalty earned at Zandvoort. Climbing via the sector he shortly recovered to sixth however couldn’t get the higher of George Russell forward, and was philosophical in regards to the ultimate outcome.
“Yeah there was undoubtedly some good overtaking. Robust shifting ahead, coming from the place I used to be, tenth, [after qualifying fifth] to then attempt to catch up all these different vehicles. Sitting in site visitors for durations of time, clearly you lose time to the vehicles up forward and also you eat extra of your tires up.
“So I believe I am typically fairly pleased with the general efficiency. And I believe assume that is pretty much as good as we might have gotten. I believe presumably we might have gotten fifth if we had perhaps tried to, if we had undercut Mercedes, however I do not assume that was… we simply missed it, I believe.”
Staff principal Fred Vasseur agreed that Ferrari’s strategic makes an attempt to cross Russell didn’t repay, with Hamilton having proven the tempo to bother the Mercedes.
“It isn’t that the tempo dropped,” Vasseur stated. “I believe we have been in a position to come again at Russell on the finish of the primary stint. Then we took a wager to increase and attempt to have a tire benefit on the finish, however the degradation was too low and it did not work.
“However I believe it was one of the simplest ways to attempt to overtake Russell on monitor. Maybe if I’ve to do it once more, maybe I might have pitted Lewis a bit earlier, however I believe it was the best choice to attempt one thing completely different.”
