“I will definitely be aggressive,” Lewis Hamilton vows to put on a show for home fans on sunday
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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in action during the Monaco Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton is starting the British Grand Prix from P5 on the grid and ahead of the spectacle has promised his fans to be aggressive from the get-go and make a few slick moves to get past a few cars during the initial exchanges of the race.
It is expected that over 140,000 fans are going to attend the event and given the level of hype around the race, Hamilton is determined to put his best foot forward and put on a show that his home crowd would remember for some time to come.
However, the starting position for the 37-year-old is not ideal as after the qualifying session the Brit admitted to wanting to start the race at least from the front row.
Now that Lewis Hamilton is starting P5, he would be looking to get on the podium as the bare minimum, and, moreover, there are chances of rain during the race and any favorable incidents could further propel him up the grid.
While talking about his chances for the race, Hamilton has said, “I don’t know if we can challenge for the win, the Red Bulls are so quick in the dry. They are pulling away on the straights and in the high-speed [corners].”
“They don’t have any bouncing whereas we have bounced, particularly in those corners.”
“Our race pace was better [in practice on Friday] although they are still a little ahead, but let’s see.”
“I’m hoping we’re a little closer on race pace compared to the last race [in Canada] and if we are then if I can just hold onto them then maybe I can progress.”
“I will definitely be aggressive, don’t worry.”
Lewis Hamilton wants to do something special in front of his home crowd
Mercedes brought quite a few upgrades for the British Grand Prix and to still end up P5 is something that they are not very pleased about, while dwelling on it Hamilton said, “The team has worked incredibly hard to bring some upgrades this weekend and we had a bunch of furniture around the car,” added Hamilton.”
“They [the team] wanted to go for a racier power mode for the last lap and charge the battery etcetera, and as we did that, it rained a little more and it was messed up.”
“I was really, really so hopeful because we’ve this incredible crowd, I was in the fight, feeling great, and I was second by 0.02 or something and I thought I could definitely go quicker than that.”
“It makes it a little harder [from fifth] but we’ve a good race car, and we’ll continue working. It’s not the worst position to start, of course.”
“In past races, I would have been super happy with that but because it’s the British Grand Prix, you’re hoping for something more.”
“I was on course for that but anyways we will move forwards and I will try and pull out something special.”
Lewis Hamilton is determined to pull out something special in front of his fans and given that there are quite a few unknowns going into the race, Hamilton could have a slight chance of coming away with a win if certain things occur in his favor.
P5 is not an extremely bad position to start a race and if someone ahead of him crashes then he would be there to pick up the pieces, and given the excitement around the event, it is going to be a must-see event for all the Formula One fans all over the world.
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