Question: Your second win of the year lifts you to the top of the drivers’ championship - you must be feeling on top of the world…
Lewis Hamilton: It’s great to be leading the world championship, but, I have to be honest, Formula One is so tough and so competitive at the moment that you can’t take anything for granted - and, while I might be on top right now, I know that I’ll need to fight for every lap of the next 11 races to remain up there. And, I think I’m like the fifth leader of the championship so far this year, so it’s pretty clear that it’s not so easy staying on top.
Our sport is so incredibly competitive at the moment - and we’re seeing different teams come to the forefront all the time - that this championship is going to be as much about playing the long game - minimising mistakes, scoring points at every race - as it is about success at individual races. And, actually, I think that’s the first time you can probably say that about a Formula One championship.
Whether it’s the changes to the points system, or just the fact that there are maybe as many as 10 drivers out there with the machinery capable of winning races, you can’t afford to just take the points. You’ve got to be on the limit all the time - and I love that, because that’s how I love to race.
Question: People always expected the MP4-25 to go well at Montreal. Was the circuit a good match for the car’s characteristics?
Lewis Hamilton: It was a good match, yes, but it wasn’t a perfect one - we’d probably still look at other tracks coming up on the calendar as giving us a better opportunity to win.
Montreal is quite an extreme circuit, and I think our strength was having a package that worked well against all those extremes.
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