Lewis Hamilton

LEWIS HAMILTON collided with Kevin Magnussen early in the Spanish Grand Prix.

"But I was like, we might as well just save the engine so we live to fight another day. "From a driver's perspective, you know, 'that can't be possible, I'm 50 seconds behind the leaders', but it's still valuable mileage and we are never giving up anyway. The pair collided on the opening lap of the Spanish Grand Prix, with the incident causing Hamilton to offer to quit the race.

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It was 15 seconds behind at the end and he caught all the way up - at times, he was the quickest. And the driver!” He added: “Him showing this very good pace was important, not only for his morale, but also our morale. Our pace was closer to the top guys in the race, which is amazing. “We have reasons to believe we can get there. “With Lewis, we had probably the fastest race car.

Kevin Magnussen said that his collision with Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap in Spain was where his race effectively ended.

We had a good start, a good first lap and that’s all you want from today. “It was a great Saturday, and we had a very clean Friday too which is very beneficial. The Mercedes driver has damage and limps back to the pits for repairs#SpanishGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/7mV0YAbGxF

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"Since the last race of last year it's been difficult all round," he said. But in this Mercedes car, which had big upgrades to the floor and front wing in Spain, he flourished. While Hamilton finished behind his younger team-mate again, his result was hailed by the team after he suffered a collision and puncture on the opening lap which sent him to the back. "Can we fight for a world championship? "The race pace is much, much better… ; George Russell finished third on Sunday and Hamilton fifth after a huge recovery

Albeit delighted with a scintillating recovery drive, Lewis Hamilton was left pondering what could have been without Lap 1 contact in Spain.

Asked to explain that issue which created the threat of retirement, Hamilton said: “It’s just a lot hotter than predicted today. “I’ve not spoken to the team because I’ve been elsewhere, but I had to basically just drive it half throttle and trying to pull the car and lots and lots of lifting down the straight, just to try and get clean air and fresh air into the engine and just to cool it down.” “But I was like well, at least I’ll get into the points and so then finishing fourth, I was so happy.” That left both drivers running at the back. “I think if I hadn’t had that issue at the beginning, who knows where we would have been in the end, so it’s great to know that we had similar pace to some of the front runners.” Speaking to Sky F1, Hamilton said: “Just really grateful I was able to come back and so grateful to the team for just keeping their head down and positive feedback coming through.

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"There are a lot of, what appear to be, isolated examples which all come back to the same general picture and dissatisfaction with the way that FIA is running Formula 1. F1 are actively looking behind the scenes at ways they can sideline the FIA from the running of Formula 1 in any practical way. F1 bosses are reportedly considering an attempt to pull away from the FIA as the governing body's jewellery spat with Lewis Hamilton continues.

An early collision dropped Hamilton to 19th but the Mercedes driver battled back to record a top-five finish.

Isla, a five-year-old that is terminally ill and she said ‘Will you win the race for me?’ “Can we fight for a world championship? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Ultimately, there was a lot of adversity coming from so far back. Well, we bet we can but we just need to have a car that is capable of finishing first and second. “I said ‘I don’t know if we will win, but I will give it everything’. So hopefully for me, that was a bit like a win and I would like to dedicate it to her.”

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“I don’t know if reliability is an issue, we’ve already seen today that there was something in the end. “Yes, definitely,” he said. That dropped them to the back of the field with Hamilton telling Mercedes that his car didn’t feel right, adding that they should “save the engine” and retire the car.