Lewis Hamilton 'thought for a second' he would be able to hang on to a first win of the 2022 F1 season in the USGP before ultimately being passed by Max Verstappen.
It was the closest Hamilton has come this season to scoring a win, and he said afterwards that it “felt amazing to even just be in shooting distance of Max for some points of the race.”“I think in the first stint he was controlling the pace and it was very difficult to hold on to him. But in that second phase of the race, after the safety car, I was able to keep up with him and we did such a great job with strategy today. We were aggressive.
Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff admitted he thought Hamilton had a chance of winning when Verstappen was stuck behind Leclerc, who had jumped the Red Bull in the pits. “But once Max was past Charles and he couldn’t fight back, I think it was just waiting for it to happen.” The Mercedes W13 car got its final upgrade in Austin, which Wolff felt had offered a boost in performance.
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