Lewis Hamilton says his recovery drive in the AzerbaijanGP after losing places under the safety car shows that his “hunger is still there” for F1 Full story ⬇️
But Hamilton admitted that the timing of the safety car wasn't easy to take.
“Naturally, because so much work goes into the weekend and then yesterday was a difficult day where you went backwards, and then today I was hoping for a better day and I lost so many places, that's definitely a kick in the teeth,” he said when asked by Autosport about his initial reaction. “But then I was like, ‘well, it is what it is’. I think today shows that the hunger is there. And once I get that confidence in that car, the pace will come out.”Hamilton insisted that he tried to put his disappointment behind him for the restart.
“I couldn't get bogged down in that frustration and ‘I've lost all those positions’,” he said. “I just had to keep my head down and get focused on attacking, and that's what I did.“Really continuously proud of my team for just keeping their head down. We didn't have the pace that we had in the last race, which is obviously not the greatest. But there's no lack of motivation in this team.
“We're all super hungry, we're just working towards getting those upgrades. So I think this is the beginning of something hopefully better in the next coming races.”
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