![]() ![]() my team, everyone back at the factory, all the men and women we have here, who worked so hard all year. Our goal was to win this championship and now we have done that.” And Hamilton: “Firstly big congratulations to Max and his team. “Also Christian, but also Helmut, trusting me to be in the team in 2016. There’s no reason to change, I want to stay with them for the rest of my life. and I hope we can do this for 10, 15 years together. “To my team, I think they know I love them. he was driving his heart out as well today, it was great teamwork, and he’s an amazing teammate. I also want to say a big thank you to Checo. I love them so much and I really, really enjoy working with them already since 2016 and this year has been incredible. I mean, I don’t know what to say, these guys on my team, and of course Honda as well, they deserve it. throughout the whole race I kept fighting, and then of course that opportunity in the last lap. More Verstappen: “It’s unbelievable, I mean. And it’s not just about this race, it’s about the whole year.” You know, the last 10 laps, I was working out: “What am I going to say to Max, what am I going to say to the guys, to pick them up?” “And then a stroke of good fortune for us with the safety car, and we made it work. Where does it rank with Vettel titles? “It’s right up there with the first one, we won the first one here, and then because of the quality of the opponents that we’ve had this year - because they’ve pushed us so hard, and we’ve fought to hard. And you know, to close it out, see him cross the line, see him become the world champion for us after all these years, an amazing feeling. but you just knew that Max was not going to give it up. You know, he got the job done into five, and then you know, coming back on the straight with the slipstream, you think. “I’ve lost my voice, because I was screaming from turn five all the way down that back straight. But I’m just so proud of Max, so proud of the team, for what we’ve been through this year, what we’ve achieved, against some great opponents. Difficult circumstances for the stewards, we were all putting pressure on them, but they called it right. But they don’t need to catch up the back of the paddock, so they made absolutely the right call. It’s unheard of to leave the cars unlapped and you could see they wanted to get the race going again. And then it was all down to Max, you know, to make it happen.” Re: the lapped cars overtaking and Wolff disagreeing: “Yeah of course he will obviously do that. This championship came down to the last lap, and a great strategy call, to make that pitstop and take that set of softs. ![]() “We were screaming at him : “Let them race.” That’s what we’ve been talking about all these years: let them race. ![]() And I have to say look, all credit to Lewis, he’s been a phenomenal opponent all year, he’s a great world champion, and that’s what makes it even more valid, you know, to win this. It’s been an insane competition and for Max to win the world championship it’s not just about here, it’s about a whole year. “And I have to say, with the stewards, we felt hard done by early in the race, they did great to get the race going again. you know, thank you, Nicholas Latifi, for that safety car. I think I called it on the commentary, that it was going to need something from the racing Gods in the last 10 laps. But I’ll be reserving judgment until we know all there is to know.Ĭhristian Horner: “That just about sums up this year, I think. It does feel a bit like they hollered “Next goal wins!” with Hamilton 352-0 up, which works better in the playground than in elite-level sport. But the integrity of the sport, words that feel as ridiculous to write about F1 as they do football, cricket, boxing, tennis and all the others – needs to come above everything. I do wonder if this was Masi’s rationale, and if it was – a massive if – I understand it. Watching Hamilton win behind a safety car would have switched them right off.” F1 is dying, maybe a few of the folks tuning in this afternoon will tune in next season. What more could you ask for? One driver raced better than the other and is now the champion. The two best drivers racing head to head on the last lap. “I’d argue that most people who tuned in for this race as a one-off casual for the drama probably enjoyed this and thought it was a fantastic end to a world championship. “I’ve seen a couple of emails in now about how all F1 fans will feel sick at how this played out,” says Sean Duffy.
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