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Lewis Hamilton went to Ferrari to win, 'not to finish P4' as the Briton said in conversation with Media at Siverstone, following a disagreement with the Scuderia regarding the strategy during the Austrian Grand Prix.
According to the 7-time world champion, the issue was addressed in Austria, but also before his media engagements on Thursday at Silverstone on the eve of the first sessions of the British Grand Prix.
"Yes, so I mean I even just probably an hour ago I brought it up. So I mentioned it after the race and then we had time to reflect on it and I think the team's first view was I think they just wanted to make sure they secured third and fourth, which is totally fine," said the Briton to media including GPblog.
Nevertheless Hamilton has loftier ambitions than a top 4 result. "But I said, 'look, I'm not here to start fourth and finish fourth. I'm racing for every little bit that we can gain.' And in a scenario like that, for example, both of us were on the same strategy they had us exactly on the same strategy. I think we went both medium, hard, medium (tyres, ed.)."
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Hamilton never 'wants to follow his teammate' and warns Ferrari he will 'ignore them'
Hamilton sees the potential fruits of having a different strategy to that of his teammate's, as worthy of taking the risk. "So at least I was offset at the end like I'd never want to do the same thing as my teammate ever and in that last stint for example we were not under pressure from the cars behind."
Ferrari's response did not satisfy the Briton, he noted. "So they said, 'yeah, but you would have got overtaken by a Charles (Leclerc, ed.) towards the end. I said, 'well, that could have been a safety car.'"
"In that point, there was no risk in taking the gamble. And so I said, 'I don't want to get to a point where I'm ignoring you. So, what we're doing is working on our communication and and we're still getting to know each other how we like to operate so and that's understood," concluded the 7-time world champion.
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