Hamilton: "I wanted to win the title with a champion race" – F1 Piloti – Formula 1

Victory has not arrived, but Austin continues to be a special place for Lewis Hamilton, which is increasingly entering the history of Formula 1 by winning its sixth world title. A weekend that is not excellent, with an opaque qualification closed only with a fifth place, but in the race the Mercedes driver has as always pulled out the claws going almost beyond the limits of the vehicle: when tire degradation forced everyone to a second stop, Hamilton knew that the only way to try to win was to try the impossible, managing the hard tire in the best possible way and trying to resist Bottas. The goal was not centered, but certainly no one like him could have gone so close.

"It's hard to say if this is the best title, all six have been totally different and the path to achieving each one has been totally different. – says Hamilton – Right now I feel beautiful. We did an incredible race, closed with a brace: Valtteri did a great job today, but starting fifth and being in the lead up to a few laps from the end when the tires collapsed is something that nobody had expected and that makes me very proud for how i drove. When I left today I wanted the race to be like this. I didn't want to finish in eighth place and win the championship this way, staying on the sidelines of the race. I wanted to win in the way that I think is as close as possible to the test of a champion and I wanted to do it this way. And in the end we succeeded, thanks also to the strategy that was fantastic and allowed us to get this double. Right now I'm really very proud of everyone. "

"At the moment I don't realize that I'm just a title from Michael Schumacher, I can't make it, I can't believe it – continued the English – I still remember when I was standing on the chair watching Grand Prix and now I'm a six time world champion, I'm there with the greatest. I still feel like a normal Stevenage guy. It's really very bizarre to be here competing in this sport, which was my life and which gave me a purpose in life, I'm really very grateful to this sport for all this ".