Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) calls for action: “Something has to change”

After finishing second in the Mexican Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was emotional. The Briton said after the race: “On the one hand, I’m happy; on the other, I’m really annoyed.” His genuine joy for Kimi Antonelli, who had just been crowned world champion, was mixed with frustration at having presumably thrown away the chance of victory.

Lewis Hamilton: A one-two finish was on the cards

Hamilton: “We’ve lost valuable points, and we’ve worked so hard as a team. We could easily have secured a one-two today. We had the pace for it. We went into Turn 4 in first and second. If we’d just held our positions, I reckon anything could have happened in the race. But when your team-mate works against you and you end up losing positions like that, it’s definitely tough.” In the end, Hamilton finished second, with his team-mate Charles Leclerc coming fourth.

Immediately after the start, a controversial incident occurred in which both Ferraris made hard contact with each other and went off the track. Lewis Hamilton dropped back, whilst Leclerc took the lead. The problem for Ferrari was that Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) slipped through on the occasion. Leclerc received a five-second penalty – though for leaving the track, not specifically for an incident involving Hamilton. The Brit was fuming over the radio.

Hamilton: Something has to change!

After the race, Hamilton said: “We’ll discuss this in private, and it’s not really worth saying much more about it. We don’t have any rules governing how we behave towards one another on the track, and I don’t know whether that will change anything on Charles’s side. We simply need to sort this out, but something definitely has to change.”

Hamilton: “The most important thing to bear in mind – and perhaps this only comes with age – is that every decision you make in the car has an impact on all the people working behind the scenes for the team. Working as a team is part of our job and part of our contract. We need to work together as a team, which would actually have come easily to us today. So it’s a shame that we lost that in the way it happened.”

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Hamilton predicts: “This will simply carry on if no action is taken and no truly in-depth, serious discussion takes place. So this shouldn’t happen again in future. Of course, I’ve had close battles with team-mates in the past, and you can’t always get it right, but in nine out of ten cases we should be able to. We’ll discuss this off the track. It certainly won’t be easy, but it has to be done.”

Was Hamilton surprised that Leclerc didn’t give the position back? Not an issue. Hamilton said: “At that point, it didn’t matter at all. We’d let Max past, and that was the end of the race.” Because overtaking is virtually impossible at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.