"Highly under pressure like never before"

(Motorsport-Total.com) – Lewis Hamilton squats with trembling hands next to his Mercedes, in which he has just taken pole position at his home game at Silverstone (Formula 1 2018 live in the ticker) C is as if the Brit wanted to thank his technician for putting it on the front in front of the British fans. But in the end, it was also the performance of the quadruple world champion himself, who has no doubt about it today.

When Ferrari's pressure was the strongest – and he was after Sebastian Vettel's best time in the first attempt Q3 – Hamilton has was able to make another decisive move in 1: 25.892 minutes. With a lead of .044 seconds, he is just as close to his starting number 44. "Lewis is just a machine on the track", rejoices l & # 39; former teammate Nico Rosberg faced Silverstone's fourth straight pole

He was so tight, "said Hamilton, and becomes emotional, given the circumstances, he was able to" make one of his best rides. "" I felt almost as much pressure as ever before. after that, I was just … I can not tell you how much I trembled. The adrenaline rush, it was well beyond the limit, as I have already experienced. It's pretty crazy considering it's already my 76th pole, "said Hamilton.

Hamilton wanted to push the football team

There was a lot of Ferrari pressure in "I do not know what they did yesterday, but their car was so fast today. Getting the towers today was the hardest thing I can remember. "

" I had to do all this, "he continues," but the fans were there and I could see them, I really wanted to get there, really and give a boost with the Pole England (the national team). You will not see it, but you know what I mean, "said Hamilton, who was upset by the" Three Lions "against Sweden and would have preferred to hold the press conference.

However, in the third quarter, he did not look good at the first Hamilton caught the fastest time, only to find that he was soon replaced by Vettel in second place, "which of course adds extra pressure because you know that he will improve again. So I had to improve too and a little more. Pushing the limit without throwing it is one of the most difficult positions of the car. "

Bottas struggles with turn 16

In the end, it was very thin, but it must also be seen at Mercedes that it is much tighter in qualifying The advantage of 44 thousandths of a second is negligible and his teammate Valtteri Bottas has even arrived that's in fourth position. "We thought maybe we had a bit more margin, but that was not the case," Toto Wolff asks. "That's why it ended up being very tight."

The fact that Bottas finished only fourth with a lead of 0.325 seconds puts Mercedes in front of some problems tomorrow, with the gap coming to turn 16. "I got a little too low in the Turn 16 and I lost a few tenths of a second. "However, after the second lap, Bottas was 0.154 seconds behind Hamilton. Team leader Toto Wolff says only half the truth when he badyzes: "Valtteri lost two tenths and a half in the last two corners, and third place would have been important for the start of the race. race. "However, it would not have been without error, but the fact is that the Finn falls as a buffer for the Ferrari, though he does not succeed exceptionally well.

Rosberg surprised by Hamilton's reaction

And even Hamilton needs it, if he wants to lead the race against the Ferrari tomorrow in the first round, Wolff says: "We've seen their launches and it's going to be incredibly difficult with their straight-line performance "

] At least today, Hamilton has once again made the most of himself and the car. "Both," he says when asked if pilots ode r car today & # 39; It makes the difference, and even though Hamilton's words may seem exaggerated and strange to strangers, they were real, as his tremor clearly visible after the qualifying shows. "Lewis is emotionally charged," also acknowledged Nico Rosberg "I have rarely seen it like that."