It was a case of damage limitation for Lewis Hamilton in Sunday afternoon's Monaco Grand Prix when after a disastrous qualifying session left him languishing down in 13th on the starting grid, he had very little hope of even making it into the points.
Monaco is not a track where it is easy to overtake, in fact it is virtually impossible, as the few accidents we saw as a result of an ill-fated pass proved, so Lewis basically had to hope for misfortune tp fall upon the drivers in front of him is he had any hope of moving up through the field….or a different strategy.
Strategy won out in the end and by the team leaving Lewis out until lap 46, he was able to leapfrog a few of his colleagues and finish the race in seventh place overall.
“I'm really, really happy that I was able to fight back to seventh. The strategists said P10 was probably the maximum today, so it feels great to have beaten that target,” he said. “To score six points, considering where I was on the grid after a disastrous day on Saturday is a good recovery. "
"Today it was impossible to overtake and I tried everything to get past Carlos [Sainz] at the end! I'm just grateful to have ended up in P7. I went on the radio at the end there to make sure the team know that this battle isn't over. We'll be sure to push those red cars hard next time out in Canada. We've got a real fight on our hands, but there are still 14 races to go.”
