Question: It’s your third non-finish in four races - is that starting to get to you?
Lewis Hamilton: No. On Sunday night, I was obviously exceptionally disappointed - it’s always difficult to get your head around things when you’ve just retired from a Grand Prix - and it takes time to come to terms with that.
Clearly, it’s not been a good run of results, but I don’t look at those races and think what might have been, or what additional points I might have if I’d finished. There’s no point. You just need to look at the situation facing you, and work your hardest to do your best. So I don’t look at my retirements in Spain, or Hungary, or in the last two races as what’s been lost. I’m just looking ahead at the next four races - I haven’t won at any of those tracks, so I’ll be even more motivated than ever to make amends for that.
Question: Are you beginning to think this isn’t going to be your year?
Lewis Hamilton: Absolutely not. I spoke with the team on Sunday night, and we looked at things in their proper perspective:
“I’m still third overall in the points table, and I’m 20 points off the championship leader. That’s still less than a race win - it’s easy to get disheartened by being 20 points away, because it sounds such a lot, but under last year’s rules, that’s only about eight points - and to be eight points off with four races left is nothing really.”
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