SILVERSTONE, England — Lewis Hamilton mentioned the feelings poured out of him after the British Grand Prix as a result of he had began to doubt if he would ever win a Components One race once more.
Hamilton’s record-extending 104th profession win, his ninth at Silverstone, was his first because the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in December 2021.
Hamilton managed a topsy-turvy race to win his ultimate race on dwelling soil earlier than becoming a member of Ferrari subsequent season.
After the end, the F1 feed performed a radio message from Hamilton as his voice cracked with emotion.
The TV broadcast additionally confirmed him in a protracted embrace with father Anthony.
“Yeah, I can not cease crying,” Hamilton mentioned. “It has been since 2021, I simply day by day, getting up, making an attempt to struggle, to coach, to place my thoughts to the duty, and work as laborious as I can with this superb workforce.”
Requested if he ever doubted he would possibly stand on the highest step of an F1 podium once more Hamilton mentioned: “Completely.
“The sensation, it feels completely different to earlier races, and significantly races the place you are having race after race after race, or seasons the place you are having a number of wins. I feel with the adversity we have gone by as a workforce, and that I personally felt that I’ve skilled, these challenges, the fixed problem like all of us must rise up away from bed day by day and provides it our greatest shot.
“There are such a lot of occasions whenever you really feel like your greatest shot just isn’t adequate, and the frustration generally you could really feel. We reside in a time the place psychological well being is such a severe challenge, and I am not going to lie, I’ve not been… that I’ve skilled that.
“There’s undoubtedly been moments the place the thought that this was it, that it was by no means going to occur once more. So to have this sense coming throughout the road, I feel actually, I’ve by no means cried coming from a win. It simply got here out of me. It is a actually, actually nice feeling. I am very, very grateful for it.”
Anthony Hamilton instructed Sky Sports activities on his son’s win: “How loopy was that? He was by no means going to offer that up. You simply have to look at the occasions, it was a tenth [of a second] right here, a tenth there, it did not matter what was occurring. Lewis was in full management. There isn’t any approach with that present automotive and the tyres he had that he was going to permit that win to slide in entrance of the British public. And that is what drove him on.
“Lewis was second yesterday and he was disillusioned with himself, he was like: ‘I might have performed higher’ after qualifying. So he goes dwelling, refocuses and comes again and you understand that he is calculated every thing and he is ready for the surroundings to vary, and when the surroundings adjustments, he is in his ingredient.
“It is nice for the workforce, it is nice for the British crowd … and it is nice for motorsport.”