After Verstappen suffered a sluggish pit stop, it allowed Hamilton to force his way into the lead of Austin’s race, but he couldn’t fend off the Red Bull driver, who made a late pass for bringing home victory.
Hamilton, who credited Mercedes’ upgrade package delivered over the weekend as a key performance gain, acknowledged his disappointment at missing out on a first win of the season but felt it was a clear sign of progress for his team to gain motivation ahead of his 2023 preparations.
“What I’ll take away from today is that we had good pace, I’m still there, and I know when they build the car I’ll take it to the top. We just have to keep working.” , Hamilton said. Sky sports.
“I would like to start by saying a big thank you to my team, everyone at the factory works so hard and it has been such a trying year for everyone.
“We came here with improvements, they worked so hard to make those improvements and it really had an effect, so we were closer today. I’m really proud of everyone. Sorry, I didn’t couldn’t get the win, I gave it my all.”
Hamilton felt it would still be difficult to defend against Verstappen due to Red Bull’s superior straight-line speed, but still sees his second-place finish and team-mate George Russell’s fifth as good points to hunt down Ferrari for. second place in the F1 Constructors’ World Championship. .
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W13, Lance Stroll, Aston Martin AMR22
Photo by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Red Bull clinched the F1 constructors’ world title in Austin, while Mercedes closed 53 points behind Ferrari in second place with three races to go.
“We were in the lead and I could see that he [Verstappen] was closing a second per lap and I couldn’t really respond to that,” Hamilton added.
“He’s come so far down the straight, I think they’re a lot, like 10km/h faster than us down the straight, and at the end of the straight our mirrors vibrate so much I couldn’t see where he was so hard to defend.
“I can’t say how much it would mean for the team. [to be second in the constructors’]especially with everything that’s going on and everything that happened in the last race last year, what happened this year in terms of our car’s performance and what happened with all news and everything.
“So getting a win would have been a huge triumph for all of us and hugely rewarding.”
After Verstappen suffered a sluggish pit stop, it allowed Hamilton to force his way into the lead of Austin’s race, but he couldn’t fend off the Red Bull driver, who made a late pass for bringing home victory.
Hamilton, who credited Mercedes’ upgrade package delivered over the weekend as a key performance gain, acknowledged his disappointment at missing out on a first win of the season but felt it was a clear sign of progress for his team to gain motivation ahead of his 2023 preparations.
“What I’ll take away from today is that we had good pace, I’m still there, and I know when they build the car I’ll take it to the top. We just have to keep working.” , Hamilton said. Sky sports.
“I would like to start by saying a big thank you to my team, everyone at the factory works so hard and it has been such a trying year for everyone.
“We came here with improvements, they worked so hard to make those improvements and it really had an effect, so we were closer today. I’m really proud of everyone. Sorry, I didn’t couldn’t get the win, I gave it my all.”
Hamilton felt it would still be difficult to defend against Verstappen due to Red Bull’s superior straight-line speed, but still sees his second-place finish and team-mate George Russell’s fifth as good points to hunt down Ferrari for. second place in the F1 Constructors’ World Championship. .
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W13, Lance Stroll, Aston Martin AMR22
Photo by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Red Bull clinched the F1 constructors’ world title in Austin, while Mercedes closed 53 points behind Ferrari in second place with three races to go.
“We were in the lead and I could see that he [Verstappen] was closing a second per lap and I couldn’t really respond to that,” Hamilton added.
“He’s come so far down the straight, I think they’re a lot, like 10km/h faster than us down the straight, and at the end of the straight our mirrors vibrate so much I couldn’t see where he was so hard to defend.
“I can’t say how much it would mean for the team. [to be second in the constructors’]especially with everything that’s going on and everything that happened in the last race last year, what happened this year in terms of our car’s performance and what happened with all news and everything.
“So getting a win would have been a huge triumph for all of us and hugely rewarding.”