Hamilton is fine after initially feeling unwell following the Singapore GP
Photo: Race Pictures
Kada Sárközi joined GPblog as an editor ahead of the 2023 Formula 1 season. He graduated with a BA in Sports Journalism in the UK and has covered Grands Prix and other F1 events live.
Lewis Hamilton now feels fine after the seven-time Formula 1 world champion was excused from attending the media pen after the Singapore Grand Prix.
As GPblog previously reported, Hamilton was allowed to skip the media pen after the Singapore Grand Prix because he was feeling unwell and had been seen by the FIA's medical team.
GPblog understands that Hamilton is now feeling fine. The Briton wasn't feeling well because of the heat after the end of the race, and it took some time for him to recover.
Hamilton did send a message after the race through his team, where he apologized for his strategy mistake.
He said: "Today wasn’t the result we were looking for and it was on me. At a track that’s difficult to overtake, you need to try something different and I chose to start on a new Medium tyre, to go long and try to make a one-stop work."
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The seven-time world champion continued: "Unfortunately the Medium didn’t perform as well as the soft. I had a good second stint and the pace was back, but I couldn’t make the progress I needed. Under the VSC, the team called me in but I missed the entry.
"After that, I decided to stay out and try to hold track position to the end but in the closing laps, I was struggling massively with tyre degradation and lost three places, finishing P6, which doesn't reflect the pace we had in the car today."
"A painful lesson today, but I take full responsibility for the decisions I made. Not every call will work out, and I can accept getting it wrong but I’m sorry for the team for the points we lost today.
"They put so much into every weekend, and I wanted to deliver more for them. I’ll continue to put the work in and come back fighting at the next race," Hamilton concluded.
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